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Contemporary issues of the semiotics of law : cultural and symbolic analyses of law in a global context /
The law is a symbolic construction and therefore rests on a variety of undertakings. What gives law its meaning is, for some, ideology, for others, the welfare of the majority. However, what is manifest is a conception of the law as a material structure that carries symbols of everyday life. The ana...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Hart,
2005.
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| Colección: | Oñati international series in law and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Half Title Page; Half Title verso; Title Page; Title verso; Contents; Biographical Notes; Introduction; Part I: The Interpretation and Pertinence of Law in the Global Age; 1. Refugee Meanings; INTRODUCTION; CLASS AND MEANING; COMMUNITY, TRADITION; THE OFFICIAL POSITIONINGS OF THE ASYLUM SEEKER: FROM CRIMINAL TO ENEMY; THE BARRED SUBJECT OF THE REFUGEE; 2. Citizens, Immigrants, Anarchists and Other Animals; INTRODUCTION; LIMITED BY THE LAW; IMMIGRANTS AND OTHERS; PROTESTS AND ANARCHISTS; PRESS AND PRESSURE; 3. The Dialogistic Nature of Brazil''s Arbitration Law 9.307/96; INTRODUCTION.
- DIALOGISM AND GENRELEGAL DIALOGISM; INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION; THE DIALOGISTIC LAW; CONCLUSION; 4. Constitutional ''Communarchy'': A Constitution with Chinese Characteristics; INTRODUCTION; CHARACTERISATION OF CONSTITUTIONS; FEATURES OF THE CHINESE CONSTITUTION; MAKING SENSE OF THE CHINESE CONSTITUTION; 5. The Quest for Certainty in Recent US Constitutional Scholarship: Original Intent and the Practice of Constitutional ''Creativity''; THE INSISTENCE ON ORIGINAL INTENT; DIFFICULTIES WITH ORIGINAL INTENT; CONFRONTING THE HISTORICAL REALITY OF CONSTITUTIONAL 'CREATIVITY'; WILL CHAOS ENSUE?
- CONCLUSION6. Celebrity as Authority in Law; INTRODUCTION; CELEBRITY STATUS; CELEBRITY AS A KIND OF AUTHORITY; CELEBRITY LEGAL PRACTICE; CONCLUSION; 7. Writing Around the Censor: Gypsies, Thieves, and Rebels in Early Modern Spain; CENSORED WRITING: AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW; LITERARY DISCOURSE: A TOOL OF SUBVERSION; SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF WRITING AROUND THE CENSOR; Part II: Cultural and Symbolic Analyses of the Law in Context; 8. Subversion in the World of Order: Legal Deconstruction as a Rhetorical Practice; INTRODUCTION; LEADING SOULS; PRINT AND ORALITY; RETRACING RHETORIC; THE SOPHISTS AGAIN.
- WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MANY FRIENDSCONCLUSION; 9. The Substantive Issue and the Rhetoric of the Abortion Debate in Ireland; INTRODUCTION; THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT; THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT, JUDICIAL INTERPRETATION AND THE START OF THE RHETORIC OF ABORTION IN IRELAND; THE X CASE; THE SUBSTANTIVE ISSUE; THE C CASE; ANOTHER REFERENDUM: ANOTHER DISCOURSE?; DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; 10. Wealth of Terms
- Scarcity of Justice? Term Formation in Statutory Definitions; INTRODUCTION; STATUTORY DEFINITIONS; MATERIALS AND METHODS; ANALYSIS; DISCUSSION.
- 11. Enduring Signs and Obscure Meanings: Contested Coats of Arms in Australian JurisdictionsINTRODUCTION; LOST TRADITIONS; POLITICAL PROJECTS; THE POWER OF THE OBJECT; OBSCURITY; CONCLUSION: ENDURANCE; 12. Critical Race Reggae: The Sound of a Narrative; I; IICRITICAL RACE THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION; IIITHE FIRST VERSE: REGGAE AS REVOLUTION; IVTHE SECOND VERSE: CRITICAL RACE THEORY AS REGGAE MUSIC; VTHE CHORUS: A REGGAE REPUBLIC; VILINER NOTES: CONCLUSION; 13. Cromer''s Olde England and the Dome''s New Britain: Two Same/Different Imageries of the Law of Britain''s Empire; INTRODUCTION.