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LEGAL SEMIOTICS MONOGRAPHS, Vol. X
Semiotics and Legislation. Jurisprudential, Institutional
and Sociological Perspectives
edited by Hanneke van Schooten
Hanneke van Schooten is Lecturer in the Department of Legal Theory at Tilburg
University, The Netherlands
The study of legislation is increasingly taking account of communicational
issues. The papers in this volume, developed from a one-day symposium at
the University of Tilburg, explore the semiotic foundations of legislation
as viewed from jurisprudential, institutional and sociological perspectives.
They pose such questions as the audience of legislation; the relations between
legislative and judicial discourse; the contributions of speech act theory;
the effectiveness of legislation and its meaning in non-legal discourse;
and the creation of a supra-national form of constitutional discourse, that
of Europe.
CONTENTS
Bernard S. Jackson, "Legislation in the Semiotics of Law"
(abstract)
Willem J. Witteveen, "Significant, Symbolic, and Symphonic
Laws" (abstract)
John Bell, "Statutes, Legal Texts and Operational Enactments"
(abstract)
John Griffiths, "Legal Knowledge and the Social Working
of Law: the Case of Euthanasia" (abstract)
Bert C.G.J. van Roermund, "Legislative voices. A Rousseauist
Note on Legal Pluralism" (abstract)
Dennis Kurzon, "A Speech Act Approach to 'Dead Letter' Legislation"
(abstract)
Dick W.P. Ruiter, "Legislation and Legal Institutions"
(abstract)
Wouter G. Werner, "Judicial Legislation. The European Court
of Justice as Institutional Landscaper" (abstract)
Hanneke van Schooten, "Instrumental Legislation and Communication
Theories" (abstract)
Consolidated abstracts: click here
ISBN 0-9528938-3-5 (cloth bound), 230pp., Published March
1999
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