Lawyers Making Meaning

Contents.- Preface.- Part I Face-To-Face With Legal Semiotics.- 1.Semiotics: A Fresh Start For Law.- 2.Signs, and Signs in Law.- Part II Godfathers of Semiotics.- 3. Peirce and Legal Semiotics.- 4. Greimas, Law, Discourse and Interpretative Squares.- 5.Lacan: The Semiotics of Law's Voices. - 6.Those Three Godfathers, After All.- Part III Jurisprudence and Legal Semiotics.- 7. Legal Theory And Semiotics.- 8. Politics, Semiotics and Law.- 9. Structuralism and Legal Semiotics.- Part IV Doing and Saying Legal Semiotics.- 10. The Legal Semiotic Modus Operandi.- 11. Artificiality and Naturalness: The Tyche Deity.- 12. A Vocabulary.- 13. A Bibliography.- 14. Name Index.- 15. Subject Index.ai