Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics

Research Handbooks in Legal Theory series

Edited by Anne Wagner, Research Associate Professor, Centre de Recherche Droits et Perspectives du Droit, équipe René Demogue, University of Lille, France and Sarah Marusek, Professor of Public Law, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai‘i Hilo, US

This comprehensive Research Handbook explores the wide variety of work conducted in legal semiotics to provide a broad understanding of how the law works through signs and symbols. Demonstrating that law is a strategical system of fluctuating signs, contributors critically analyse the ever-evolving conceptualisations of law and legal discourse.

‘This volume is an interdisciplinary tour de force. Scholars from around the world insightfully explore diverse signs and symbols of law. For those seeking to understand law in the evolving fullness of lived experience (including its cognitive, affective, social, cultural, and political dimensions) here is the place to begin.’
– Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, US

这本书提供了新的法律符号学的一个hand, and fields of a deepened and revisited understanding of rules in law and legal thought formation on the other. It distances itself from traditional ideas, inviting the reader to wander in new dimensions of space, images and perspectives which were hitherto unknown in legal research.’
– Jan M. Broekman, KU Leuven, Belgium

‘Law has not only a language but also a semiotics, a system of signs, texts and meanings that seek to bring order to the relationships among human beings. Never before this volume has an attempt been made to provide an all-encompassing tool for the study of such a system. Anyone working within the perimeter of linguistic, semiotic, and social studies of law will find this volume a distinctly useful starting point and reference.’
– Massimo Leone, University of Turin, Italy