Anne Wagner International Journal for the Semiotics of Law; Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale
Jan M. Broekman Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson School of Law
Anne Wagner and Jan M. Broekman, PROSPECT OF LEGALSEMIOTICS
Abstract: This book examines the progress to date in the many facets - conceptual, epistemological and methodological - of the field of legal semiotics. It reflects the fulfillment of the promise of legalsemiotics when used to explore the law, its processes and interpretation. This study in LegalSemiotics brings together the theory, structure and practice of legalsemiotics in an accessible style. The book introduces the concepts of legalsemiotics and offers an insight in contemporary and future directions which the semiotics of law is going to take. A theoretical and practical oriented synthesis of the historical, contemporary and most recent ideas pertaining to legalsemiotics, the book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in law and social sciences, as well as those who are interested in the interdisciplinary dynamics of law and semiotics.
“The dependence of law upon the media of its transmission has long constituted a controversial open border with other disciplines. Prospects of LegalSemiotics takes a radical and expansive view of possible frameworks for addressing the signs of law in an increasingly virtual and predominantly visual epoch of global dissemination. Wagner and Broekman are especially to be commended for the imaginative and rigorous manner in which they have opened legalsemiotics to a novel methodological interrogation at the same time as they have encouraged analyses that go beyond the established jurisdiction of law.”
