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26No Five-Finger Exercise: Digital Law to Manage Legal ComplexityInternational Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 17 (3): 267-276. 2004.This article considers the following. Digital coding of information is far less extensive than the complexity and much less radical than the digital coding of selection among information which establishes the legal system. Niklas Luhmann’s theory is the principal example of an appreciation for the latter. Luhmann presented the design for understanding law as autopoietic, a law legitimated and sustained by legal procedure.
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23Topoi in Summa: Virtual Justice as Determinant for Aquinas’ Placement of LawInternational Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 19 (3): 325-338. 2006.This study shows the spatial juxtaposition and separation of topics regarding law in Thomas Aquinas’ Summa theologiae. These topics are his treatise on legal structures among morals in its part I-II, and his treatise on legal justice among virtues in its part II-II. This difference in the topics’ placements requires mediation by the virtuality of law, in order to grasp the distances and bridges between the two treatments of law.
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86The Semiotics of Memes in the Law: Jack Balkin’s Promise of Legal Semiotics (review)International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 22 (4): 411-424. 2009.The jurisprudent Jack M. Balkin introduced the analogy of memes as a semiotic device for understanding the law. His notion of cultural software into which this device was inserted is developed first, followed by a development of memetic analysis and its several semiotic dimensions. After a brief treatment of the position of ideology in view of memetic analysis, and the corresponding notion of transcendence, Balkin’s explicitly semiotic setting for this doctrine is displayed. This method is then …Read more
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