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Bibliographies



Bernard S Jackson

bsj@legaltheory.demon.co.uk


Publications on Semiotics of Law


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Books (sole Author)

Semiotics and Legal Theory, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985; paperback ed. 1987, reprinted Deborah Charles Publications 1997


Law, Fact and Narrative Coherence, Merseyside, Deborah Charles Publications, 1988; paperback ed. 1990


Making Sense in Law. Linguistic, Psychological and Semiotic Perspectives, Liverpool, Deborah Charles Publications, 1995, pp.xii + 512


Making Sense in Jurisprudence, Liverpool, Deborah Charles Publications, 1996, pp.362

Books (Editor)

Semiotics, Law and Social Science, ed. D. Carzo & B. S. Jackson, Reggio and Rome, Casa del libro editrice, 1985.


Legal Semiotics and the Sociology of Law, ed. B.S. Jackson, Oñati, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, 1994, pp.378 (Oñati Proceedings, 16)

Articles and Major Reviews

  1. "Towards a Structuralist Theory of Law", The Liverpool Law Review 2 (1980), 5-30 (based on an Occasional Paper, "Structuralism and Legal Theory", Liverpool Polytechnic Press, 1979: click here for details of availability)
  2. "Historical Aspects of Legal Drafting in the Light of Modern Theories of Cognitive Development", International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 3 (1980), 349-369.
  3. "Structuralisme et 'sources du droit''', Archives de Philosophie du Droit 27 (1982), 147-160.
  4. "Structuralism and the Notion of Religious Law", Investigaciones Semióticas 2/3 (1982-3), 1-43 (Carabobo, Venezuela).
  5. "The Ceremonial and the Judicial: Biblical Law as Sign and Symbol", Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 30 (1984), 25-50.
  6. "Hart and Dworkin on Discretion: Some Semiotic Perspectives", in Semiotics, Law and Social Science, ed. D. Carzo & B. S. Jackson, Reggio and Rome, Casa del libro editrice, 1985, 145-167; French version in Archives de Philosophie du Droit 34 (1989), 243-258 (no.78, below).
  7. "Emerging Issues in Legal Semiotics", Droit Prospectif. Revue de la Recherche Juridique (1986-2), 17-37.
  8. "Semiotics and Critical Legal Studies", Working Papers of the Institute of Sociology, University of Messina, no.4 (1986); French translation in Droit et Société 8 (1988), 61-71.
  9. "Secular Jurisprudence and the Philosophy of Jewish Law: A Commentary on Some Recent Literature", The Jewish Law Annual 6 (1987), 3-42.
  10. Review article: "Peshat/Derash" (Reviews of J. Faur, Golden Doves and Silver Dots, and G.H. Hartmann and S. Budick, eds., Midrash and Literature), Textual Practice 1/3 (1987), 333-339.
  11. "Can Legal Semiotics Contribute to Natural Law Studies ?", Vera Lex VII/1 (1987), 9, 14, 18.
  12. "Some Semiotic Questions for Biblical Law", The Oxford Conference Volume, ed. A.M. Fuss, Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1987, 1-25 (Jewish Law Association Studies III).
  13. "Rationalité consciente et inconsciente dans la théorie du droit et la science juridique", Revue interdisciplinaire des études juridiques 19 (1987), 1-18.
  14. "Compétence" (52-54), "Légalisme" (223-225), "Sociolinguistique - Applications au domaine du droit" (379), "Structure" (399-401), Dictionnaire de théorie et de sociologie du droit, ed. A.J. Arnaud, Paris & Bruxelles, L.G.D.J. and E. Story-Scientia, 1988.
  15. Review of Goodrich, Reading the Law and Legal Discourse, Legal Studies 8/1 (1988), 125-131.
  16. Editorial, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 1/2 (1988), 113-116.
  17. "Can One Speak of the 'Deep Structure' of Law ?", in Theory and Systems of Legal Philosophy, ed. S. Panou et al, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1988, 250-261 (ARSP Supplementum III).
  18. "Biblical Laws of Slavery: a Comparative Approach", in Slavery and other Forms of Unfree Labour, ed. L. Archer, London and New York, Routledge, 1988, 86-101 (History Workshop Series).
  19. "Conscious and Unconscious Rationality in Law and Legal Theory", in Reason in Law, Proceedings of the Conference Held in Bologna, 12-15 December 1984, ed. Carla Faralli and Enrico Pattaro, Milan, Giuffrè, 1988, III. 281-299.
  20. "Narrative Models in Legal Proof", International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique I/3 (1988), 225-246.
  21. "Ideas of Law and Legal Administration: a Semiotic Approach", in The World of Ancient Israel: Sociological, Anthropological and Political Perspectives, ed. R.E. Clements, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 185-202.
  22. "Jewish Law or Jewish Laws", The Jewish Law Annual 8 (1989), 15-34.
  23. "The Normative Syllogism and the Problem of Reference", in Law, Interpretation and Reality, Essays in Epistemology, Hermeneutics and Jurisprudence, ed. P. Nerhot, Dordrecht etc., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990, 379-401 (Law and Philosophy Library, 11).
  24. "Semiotics and the Problem of Interpretation", in Law, Interpretation and Reality, Essays in Epistemology, Hermeneutics and Jurisprudence, ed. P. Nerhot, Dordrecht etc., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990, 84-103 (Law and Philosophy Library, 11).
  25. "Narrative Theories and Legal Discourse", in Narrative in Culture, ed. C. Nash, London, Routledge, 1990, 23-50.
  26. "Hart et Dworkin sur le pouvoir discrétionnaire: points de vue sémiotiques", Archives de Philosophie du Droit 34 (1989), 243-258 (translation of no.51, above).
  27. "Legalism and Spirituality: Historical, Philosophical and Semiotic Notes on Legislators, Adjudicators, and Subjects" in Religion and Law, Biblical-Judaic and Islamic Perspectives, ed. E.B. Firmage, B.G. Weiss and J.W. Welch, Winona Lake, Eisenbrauns, 1990, 243-261.
  28. "The "Autonomy Thesis" and the "Pragmatic Turn": A Response to Ralph Lindgren", International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique III/9 (1990), 303-308.
  29. "On Scholarly Developments in Legal Semiotics", Ratio Juris 3/3 (1990), 415-424.
  30. "Interpretation as Professional Practice", International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique IV/10 (1991), 99-107.
  31. "Semiótica y Crítica Jurídica", Cuadernos del Istituto de Investigaciones Juridicas V/14 (1990), 295-317 (trad. de Rosa E. Talavera S.).
  32. "Towards a Semiotic Model of the Games Analogy in Jurisprudence", Droit et Société 17-18 (1991), 97-121, reprinted in Le jeu: un paradigme pour le droit, ed. F. Ost and M. van de Kerchove, Paris, L.G.D.J., 1992) 137-164.
  33. "Analogy in Legal Science: Some Comparative Observations", in Legal Knowledge and Analogy, ed. P. Nerhot, Dordrecht etc., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991, 145-165 (Law and Philosophy Library, 12).
  34. "Semiotic Scepticism: A Response to Neil MacCormick", International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique IV/11 (1991), 175-190.
  35. "Law and Language: A Metaphor for Maine, A Model for his Successors?", in The Victorian Achievement of Sir Henry Maine, ed. A. Diamond, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992, 256-293.
  36. "Introduction: Semiotics and Institutional Theory", International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique IV/12 (1991), 227-232.
  37. "The Wisdom of the Inessential" (Review article on Douzinas, Warrington and McVeigh, Postmodern Jurisprudence), Legal Studies 12/1 (1992), 103-117.
  38. "Pour un modèle sémiotique de l'analogie du jeu en théorie du droit", International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique V/13 (1992), 55-90.
  39. "Parse it!", Bulletin of the International Association for the Semiotics of Law, 6 (1990), 2, translated in "L'Analisi di 'analisi': una polemica tra giuristi inglesi", ed. M. Ricciardi, Il giusto processo 9-10 (1991), 243-253.
  40. "Introduction", in La découverte du sens en droit, ed. F. Paychère, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1992, 9-16 (Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, Beiheft Nr. 48)
  41. "MacCormick on Logical Justification in Easy Cases: A Semiotic Critique", International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique V/14 (1992), 203-214.
  42. "'Legal Visions of the New Europe': Ius Gentium, Ius Commune, European Law", in Legal Visions of the New Europe. Essays Celebrating the Centenary of the Faculty of Law, University of Liverpool, ed. B.S. Jackson and D. McGoldrick, Dordrecht, Graham & Trotman, Martinus Nijhoff, 1993, 3-35.
  43. "European Convention of Human Rights Articles 6 & 12: Some Semiotic Observations", International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique VI/16 (1993), 45-69.
  44. "Who is a Jew?: Some Semiotic Observations on a Judgment of the Israel Supreme Court", International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique VI/17 (1993), 115-146.
  45. "The Nature of Analogical Argument in Early Jewish Law", in The Jewish Law Annual XI (1993), 137-168.
  46. "Piaget, Kohlberg and Habermas: Psychological and Communicational Approaches to Legal Theory", in Laws and Rights, ed. V. Ferrari and C. Faralli, Milan, Giuffrè, 1993, II.571-592.
  47. "Law, Language and Narrative: David Daube on Some Divine Speech-Acts", in Essays in Law and Religion. The Berkeley and Oxford Symposia in Honour of David Daube, ed. C.M. Carmichael, Berkeley, University of California at Berkeley, 1993, 51-66.
  48. "Code and Custom", in Critic of Institutions Vol.I: Codes and Customs, ed. R. Kevelson, New York, Peter Lang, 1994, 119-138.
  49. "Towards an Interdisciplinary Model of Legal Communication", in Legal Semiotics and the Sociology of Law, ed. B.S. Jackson, Oñati, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, 1994, 97-110.
  50. "Towards a Semiotic Model of Professional Practice, with some Narrative Reflections on the Criminal Process", International Journal of the Legal Profession I/1 (1994), 55-79.
  51. "Thématisation et typifications narratives en droit", Protée 22/2 (1994), 57-68, in special issue, "Le lieu commun", ed. E. Landowski and A. Semprini, Chicoutimi, Université du Québec, 1994). English version: "Thematisation and the Narrative Typifications of the Law", in D. Nelken, ed., Law and Communication, 1995, forthcoming
  52. "Some Semiotic Features of a Judicial Summing-Up in an English Criminal Trial: R. v. Biezanek", International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique VII/20 (1994), 201-224.
  53. "Envisaging Law", International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique VII/21 (1994), 311-334.
  54. "The Literary Presentation of Multiculturalism in Early Biblical Law", International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique VIII/23 (1995), 181-206. See abstract
  55. "'Anchored Narratives' and the Interface of Law, Psychology and Semiotics", Legal and Criminological Psychology 1 (1996), 17-45.
  56. "Talion and Purity: Some Glosses on Mary Douglas", in Reading Leviticus, A Conversatioon with Mary Douglas, ed. J. Sawyer, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996, 107-123.
  57. "An Aye for an I?: the Semiotics of Lex Talionis in the Bible", in Semiotics and the Human Sciences: New Directions - Essays in Honor of Roberta Kevelson, ed. W. Pencak and J. Ralph Lindgren (New York and Bern: Peter Lang, 1997), 127-150.
  58. "Who Enacts Statutes?", Statute Law Review 18/3 (1997), 177-207.
  59. "On the Atemporality of Legal Time", in Temps et Droit. Le droit a-t-il pour vocation de durer, ed. F. Ost and M. van Hoecke (Brussels: Bruylant, 1998), 225-246
  60. "Bentham, Truth and the Semiotics of Law", in Legal Theory at the End of the Millennium, ed. M.D.A. Freeman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 493-531 (= Current Legal Problems 51 (1998), 493-531)
  61. "Truth or Proof?: The Criminal Verdict", International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique X/33 (1998), 227-273.
  62. "Logic and Semiotics: Ontology or Linguistic Structure? ", International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique X/33 (1998), 323-327.
  63. "On the Semiotics of Legislation", in Hanneke van Schooten, ed., Semiotics and Legislation. Jurisprudential, Institutional and Sociological Perspectives (Liverpool: Deborah Charles Publications, 1999), 5-26.
  64. "Significato letterale. Semantica e narrativa nel diritto biblico e nella teoria contemporanea del diritto", Ragion Pratica 12 (1999), 153-177.


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