Synopses & Reviews
This volume assesses the role of legal semiotics in legal education. The field of legal semiotics is new and highly relevant to legal practice and to the transference of legal knowledge across generations of lawyers. The material included in this book promotes new semiotic ideas in four specific domains: the philosophical and legal foundations of the newly developed sign-directed expressiveness in law; the historical, political and semiotic dimensions of first efforts to teach Law in Pennsylvania and Virginia; gender issues and family relations in the light of legal qualifications; and economic and business approaches to cases in which trademarks are functioning as signs in law or public use of property is forwarded. Courses/workshops/seminars on law and semiotics
Synopsis
Legal semiotics is new field highly relevant to both legal practice and the transference of legal knowledge across generations of lawyers. This volume assesses the role legal semiotics play in legal education.
Synopsis
This book offers educational experiences, including reflections and the resulting essays, from the Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics held during 2008 – 2011 at Penn State University’s Dickinson School of Law.
Table of Contents
Preface-- Semiotics in the Seminar; Jan M. Broekman, Francis J. Mootz III, William A. Pencak: 1 Introduction.- 2 The Kevelson Round Tables.- 3 The Seminar at Penn State Law.- Part 1: