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The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education

  • First time focus on the implementation of legal semiotics on legal education
  • Revisits many dimensions of legal practice and contributes to a uniquely sharp focus on lawyers' signifying activities
  • Shows how a 3-credit course can bring law students to research and understanding via semiotics

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Philosophical Dimensions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-4
    2. Faces Face to Face

      • Jan M. Broekman
      Pages 21-56
  3. Semiotics and the Legal System

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-114
    2. Semiotics in Legal Theory Design

      • Jeffrey A. Ellsworth
      Pages 129-151
  4. Economy, Business

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-204
    2. Trademarks: A Social Perspective

      • Elizabeth Karnezos
      Pages 205-220
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 249-255

About this book

This book offers educational experiences, including reflections and the resulting essays, from the Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics held during 2008 – 2011 at Penn State University’s Dickinson School of Law.  The texts address educational aspects of law that require attention and that also are issues in traditional jurisprudence and legal theory.  The book introduces education in legal semiotics as it evolves in a legal curriculum. Specific semiotic concepts, such as “sign”, “symbol” or “legal language,” demonstrate how a lawyer’s professionally important tasks of name-giving and meaning-giving are seldom completely understood by lawyers or laypeople.  These concepts require analyses of considerable depth to understand the expressiveness of these legal names and meanings, and to understand how lawyers can “say the law,” or urge such a saying correctly and effectively in the context of a natural language that is understandable to all of us.  The book brings together the structure of the Seminar, its foundational philosophical problems, the specifics of legal history, and the semiotics of the legal system with specific themes such as gender, family law, and business law.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dickinson School of Law, Penn State University, Carlisle, USA

    Jan M. Broekman

  • University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505, USA

    Francis J. Mootz

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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Hardcover Book USD 54.99
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