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Title

Contemporary issues of the semiotics of law : cultural and symbolic analyses of law in a global context / edited by Anne Wagner, Tracey Summerfield and Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas.

Publication

Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Publishing, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Wagner, Anne, 1968-
• Summerfield, Tracey.
• Benavides Vanegas, Farid Samir.
• Benavides, Farid Samir.
• Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law.

Description

x, 275 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This collection of essays investigates the law as part of a global system of meaning and the play of legal meaning as socio-historical specificity.

Series Statement

Oñati international series in law and society

Uniform Title

Oñati international series in law and society

Subject

• Semiotics (Law)
• Culture and law

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-266) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : law's garden of forking paths / Anne Wagner, Tracey Summerfield and Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas -- 1. Refugee meanings / Ian Duncanson -- 2. Citizens, immigrants, anarchists and other animals / Annabelle Mooney -- 3. The dialogistic nature of Brazil's arbitration law 9.307/96 / Celina Frade -- 4. Constitutional 'communarchy' : a constitution with Chinese characteristics / Deborah Cao -- 5. The quest for certainty in recent US constitutional scholarship : original intent and the practice of constitutional 'creativity' / Frederick P. Lewis -- 6. Celebrity as authority in law / John Brigham and Jill Meyers -- 7. Writing around the censor : gypsies, thieves, and rebels in early modern Spain / William Pencak.

ISBN

• 1841135461 (paper)
• 1841135453 (cloth)

OCLC

• 58454826
• SCSB-10419749

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library