Signs in law -- a source book : the semiotics of law in legal education III /: the semiotics of law in legal education III. ([2014])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jan M. Broekman, Larry Catá Backer, editors.
• Editors: Broekman, Jan M; Backer, Larry Catá
• Contents: Preface -- Acknowledged Sources -- 1. Introduction Reading Semiotics; Jan M. Broekman and Larry Catà Backer -- 2. Eco and the Text of the Communist Manifesto; Jan M. Broekman and Larry Catà Backer -- Part I From Legal Significs to Legal Semiotics -- 3. Origins and Effects of Legal Significs; Jan M. Broekman and Larry Catà Backer -- 4. "Word-Value" and "The 'I'; Frederik van Eeden -- 5. "Significs" and "Significs and Philosophy"; Gerrit Mannoury -- 6. "What is Significs?"; Lady Victoria Welby -- 7. Editorial 1: J.I. de Haan, the First Legal Semiotician -- 8. Essence and Task of Legal Significs; Jacob Israël de Haan -- 9. Legal Significs and its Application in the Terms 'Liable', 'Responsible' and 'Accountable'; Jacob Israël de Haan -- Part II Godfathers of Semiotics--Welby, Peirce, Greimas, Lacan -- 10. Editorial 2: 'Meaning' and the Welby-Peirce Correspondence -- 11. Meaning; Lady Victoria Welby -- 12. Two Letters to Lady V. Welby: Oct. 12, 1904 and Dec. 24/25 and 28, 1908; Ch. S. Peirce -- 13. Editorial 3: Firstness, Shock, and Signs -- 14. Firstness, Shock, Law, and The Hand of the Sheriff; Ch. S. Peirce -- 15. Editorial 4: Layered Discourses, Dynamic Semiotics -- 16. A View On A.J. Greimas's Essay "The Semiotic Analysis of A Legal Discourse: Commercial Laws That Govern Companies and Groups of Companies"Larry Catà Backer -- 17. Editorial 5: I and Self (Welby, Lacan) -- 18. Lacan, The Mirror and the "I"; Jan M. Broekman -- Part III Semiotics of Law Today.- 19. Justinian Corpus Iuris Civilis (Fragment) -- 20. Editorial 6: On Persons, Things and Obligations in Semiotic Perspective -- 21. Fundamental Concepts of Roman Law; Max Radin -- 22. Family as a Commonsensical Device and its Place in Law; Tracey Summerfield and Alec McHoul -- 23. The Multiple Faces of a Corporation's Legal Personality; Larry Catà Backer -- 24. Property: The Legal 'Thing' as Artwork; Roberta Kevelson -- 25. Place, Space, and Time in the Sign of Property; Robin P. Malloy -- 26. The Ethics of Property: A semiotic Inquiry Into Ownership; Denis J. Brion -- 27. Quid pro quo: Contractual Semiosis and Translation; Dinda L. Gorlée -- 28. The Semiotics of International Law: Interpretation of the ABM Treaty; R.W. Benson -- 29. Cultural Immersion, Difference and Categories in US Comparative Law: Conclusions; Vivian Grosswald Curran -- Part IV Developing Semiotic Awareness -- 30. Law in Signification Processes; Jan M. Broekman and Larry Catà Backer -- 31. Editorial 7: From Prize-Winning Seminar Papers to a General Conclusion -- 32. Can Words Really Set A Man Free? A Semiotic Analysis of the American Criminal Defendant's Right to Allocution; Charles Volkert -- 33. Shareholder Derivative Action and Corporate Identity in Delaware Jurisprudence; Alan C. Green -- 34. Signs Without Authority: The Battle of Experts, the Caricature of a Discourse and the Failure of Scientific Evidence; Robert Marriott -- 35. Semiotics in a New Key; Jan M. Broekman and Larry Catà Backer -- General References -- About the Authors -- Name Index.- Subject Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2014
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 431 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 340/.14; Semiotics (Law); Law -- Study and teaching; Law -- Study and teaching; Semiotics (Law); Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319098371; 3319098373; 3319098365; 9783319098364
• Related ISBNs: 9783319098364
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 4, 2014).
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