The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education
Editors: Broekman, Jan M., Mootz III, Francis J. (Eds.)
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- 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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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.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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“Die Sache”: The Foundationless Ground of Legal Meaning
Pages 5-20
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Faces Face to Face
Pages 21-56
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Tarski, Peirce and Truth-Correspondences in Law: Can Semiotic Truth-Analysis Adequately Describe Legal Discourse?
Pages 57-73
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History and Semiotics: Preliminary Thoughts
Pages 77-80
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Teaching Law and Semiotic Sensitivity In the Life and Career of John Reed, Founder of the Dickinson School of Law
Pages 81-93
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education
- Editors
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- Jan M. Broekman
- Francis J. Mootz III
- Copyright
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-007-1341-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-007-1341-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-1340-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-5359-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 255
- Number of Illustrations
- 25 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
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