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The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Jan M. Broekman

    1. Dickinson School of Law, Penn State University, Carlisle, USA

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  2. Francis J. Mootz

    1. University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505, USA

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  • 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
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  4. Semiotics and the Legal System

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-114
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    2. Common Law Lawyers Should Mind Their Trial Practices: Understanding, Identifying, and Correcting a Semiotic Imbalance

      • Edward J. Cyran
      Pages 115-128

    3. Semiotics in Legal Theory Design

      • Jeffrey A. Ellsworth
      Pages 129-151

  6. Economy, Business

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-204
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    2. Trademarks: A Social Perspective

      • Elizabeth Karnezos
      Pages 205-220

    3. Trademarks as a System of Signs: A Semiotician’s Look at Trademark Law

      • Meghann L. Garrett
      Pages 221-236

    4. The Semiotics of ‘Public Use’: “Use the Purpose by Which All May Benefit”

      • Nathan S. Harvill
      Pages 237-247

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 249-255
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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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