Springer has announced the publication of Larry Catá Backer and Jan Broekman (eds), Lawyers making
meaning: the semiotics of legal education II (2013).
The sequel to Broekman
and Francis J Mootz II (eds), The semiotics of legal education (2011),
[t]his book present a
structure for understanding and exploring the semiotic character of law and law
systems. Cultivating a deep understanding for the ways in which lawyers make
meaning—the way in which they help make the world and are made, in turn by the world
they create —can provide a basis for consciously engaging in the work of the
law and in the production of meaning. The book first introduces the reader to
the idea of semiotics in general and legal semiotics in particular, as well as
to the major actors and shapers of the field, and to the heart of the matter:
signs. The second part studies the development of the strains of thinking
that together now define semiotics, with attention being paid to the
pragmatics, psychology and language of legal semiotics. A third part examines
the link between legal theory and semiotics, the practice of law, the critical
legal studies movement in the USA, the semiotics of politics and structuralism.
The last part of the book ties the different strands of legal semiotics
together, and closely looks at semiotics in the lawyer’s toolkit—such as: text,
name and meaning.
The book’s Preface, Table
of Contents, and Sample Pages are available here.
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