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89Semiotics and legal theoryRoutledge & Kegan Paul. 1985.Later reprinted by Deborah Charles Publications (and not available from Amazon), this book expounds and comments on the application of Greimasian semiotics to a legal text, as found in the article by Greimas and Landowski in Greimas, Sémiotique et Sciences Sociales (1976), compares this with the semiotic presuppositions of Hart, Dworkin, MacCormick and Kelsen, and offers my own analysis of the implications of such semiotic analysis for legal theory, including some more recent radical non-positiv…Read more
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50Making sense in jurisprudenceDeborah Charles Publications. 1996.This book reviews the classical schools of jurisprudence with particular reference to their linguistic presuppositions, and summarises an alternative account based on Paris school semiotics. Detailed ToC available from linked web page. NOT available from Amazon.
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42Lenn E. Goodman, On justice: An essay in jewish philosophy (review)Philosophy East and West 59 (4). 2009.Review of Lenn Goodman's On Justice (1st 3d.)
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27The Prophet and the Law in Early Judaism and the New TestamentCardozo Studies in Law and Literature 4 (2): 123-166. 1992.
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21On Scholarly Developments in Legal SemioticsRatio Juris 3 (3): 415-424. 1990.This article reviews the opportunities for legal semiotics to contribute to legal philosophy, legal sociology, the reading of legal texts and the analysis of legal language (with bibliography) and surveys the institutional development of legal semiotics.
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19Review of On Justice: An Essay in Jewish Philosophy, by Lenn E. Goodman (review)Philosophy East and West 59 (4): 562-565. 2009.
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19Liability for Animals: An Historico-Structural Comparison (review)International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 24 (3): 259-289. 2011.This account of civil liability for animals in a range of ancient, mediaeval and modern legal systems (based on a series of studies conducted early in my career: (s.1)) uses semiotic analysis to supplement the insights of conventional legal history, thus balancing diachronic and synchronic approaches. It reinforces the conventional historical sensitivity to anachronism in two respects: (1) (logical) inference of underlying values from concrete rules (rather than attending to literary features of…Read more
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13S. Azuelos-Atias, A Pragmatic Analysis of Legal Proofs of Criminal Intent [REVIEW]International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 22 (3): 365-372. 2009.
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1Jewish Law Annual (Vol 7)Routledge. 1988.First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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1Pragmatism, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Problem of Constitutional ChangeDissertation, The University of Iowa. 2003.In Home Building & Loan Assn. v. Blaisdell, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Minnesota Mortgage Moratorium Act. Under the terms of the Act---one of the many pieces of moratory legislation enacted due to the Great Depression---mortgagors who found themselves unable to make their payments could turn to the state courts for an alteration of their payment schedule. It is clear that if there ever was a state of affairs in which one could justify the imposition of debtor relief, t…Read more
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Legal Semiotics and Semiotic Aspects of JurisprudenceIn Wagner Anne & Broekman Jan (eds.), , eds., Prospects of Legal Semiotics, Springer. pp. 3-36. 2012.Originally written in 1990, this reviews largely late 20th century debates on the study of law as Logic, Discourse, or Experience; the Unity of the Legal System and the Problem of Reference; Semiotic Presuppositions of Traditional Jurisprudence (Austin, Hart, Kelsen, Dworkin, Legal Realisms); then turns to legal philosophies explicitly Employing Forms of Semiotics (Kalinowski, the Italian Analytical School, Rhetorical and Pragmatic Approaches, Sociological and Socio-Linguistic Approaches, Peirci…Read more
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Trust in(g) EricIn De Oliveira A. C. (ed.), As interações sensíveis: Ensaios de sociossemiótica a partir da obra de Eric Landowski, Editions Estação Das Letras E Cores E Editora Cps. pp. 81-100. 2013.This article is partly an exercise in academic autobiography, seeking to make sense of the different ways in which I have applied semiotics to secular law on the one hand, Jewish law on the other. The very fact that it can be applied to both shows that its claims are methodological. But it also indicates a possible reformulation of the semiotic issues in philosophical terms: we may view the relationship between the semantic and pragmatic levels in terms of the relationship/balance between certai…Read more