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Author | : Jan M. Broekman |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2014-07-08 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9400754582 |
This book present a structure for understanding and exploring the semiotic character of law and law systems. Cultivating a deep understanding for the ways in which lawyers make meaning—the way in which they help make the world and are made, in turn by the world they create —can provide a basis for consciously engaging in the work of the law and in the production of meaning. The book first introduces the reader to the idea of semiotics in general and legal semiotics in particular, as well as to the major actors and shapers of the field, and to the heart of the matter: signs. The second part studies the development of the strains of thinking that together now define semiotics, with attention being paid to the pragmatics, psychology and language of legal semiotics. A third part examines the link between legal theory and semiotics, the practice of law, the critical legal studies movement in the USA, the semiotics of politics and structuralism. The last part of the book ties the different strands of legal semiotics together, and closely looks at semiotics in the lawyer’s toolkit—such as: text, name and meaning.
Author | : Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0814762255 |
Since 1989, there have been over 200 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. On the surface, the release of innocent people from prison could be seen as a victory for the criminal justice system: the wrong person went to jail, but the mistake was fixed and the accused set free. A closer look at miscarriages of justice, however, reveals that such errors are not aberrations but deeply revealing, common features of our legal system. The ten original essays in When Law Fails view wrongful convictions not as random mistakes but as organic outcomes of a misshaped larger system that is rife with faulty eyewitness identifications, false confessions, biased juries, and racial discrimination. Distinguished legal thinkers Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., and Austin Sarat have assembled a stellar group of contributors who try to make sense of justice gone wrong and to answer urgent questions. Are miscarriages of justice systemic or symptomatic, or are they mostly idiosyncratic? What are the broader implications of justice gone awry for the ways we think about law? Are there ways of reconceptualizing legal missteps that are particularly useful or illuminating? These instructive essays both address the questions and point the way toward further discussion. When Law Fails reveals the dramatic consequences as well as the daily realities of breakdowns in the law’s ability to deliver justice swiftly and fairly, and calls on us to look beyond headline-grabbing exonerations to see how failure is embedded in the legal system itself. Once we are able to recognize miscarriages of justice we will be able to begin to fix our broken legal system. Contributors: Douglas A. Berman, Markus D. Dubber, Mary L. Dudziak, Patricia Ewick, Daniel Givelber, Linda Ross Meyer, Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Austin Sarat, Jonathan Simon, and Robert Weisberg.
Author | : Bernard S. Jackson |
Publisher | : Global Academic Publishing |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Communication in law |
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Author | : Mark Osiel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2009-07-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1139480650 |
Genocide, crimes against humanity, and the worst war crimes are possible only when the state or other organisations mobilise and co-ordinate the efforts of many people. Responsibility for mass atrocity is always widely shared, often by thousands. Yet criminal law, with its liberal underpinnings, prefers to blame particular individuals for isolated acts. Is such law, therefore, constitutionally unable to make any sense of the most catastrophic conflagrations of our time? Drawing on the experience of several prosecutions, this book both trenchantly diagnoses the law's limits at such times and offers a spirited defence of its moral and intellectual resources for meeting the vexing challenge of holding anyone criminally accountable for mass atrocity. Just as war criminals develop new methods of eluding law's historic grasp, so criminal law flexibly devises novel responses to their stratagems. Mark Osiel examines several such legal innovations in international jurisprudence and proposes still others.
Author | : Karl N. Llewellyn |
Publisher | : Quid Pro Books |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 2016-05-21 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1610273001 |
Author | : Karl Nickerson Llewellyn |
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Total Pages | : 531 |
Release | : 1971 |
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Total Pages | : 886 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Objections (Evidence) |
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Author | : Raymond Wacks |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Jurisprudence |
ISBN | : 1135328463 |
Author | : Anne Orford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2021-08-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108480942 |
Explores the ideological, political, and economic stakes of struggles over international law's history and its relation to empire and capitalism.
Author | : Raymond Wacks |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2014-02-27 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0191510637 |
The concept of law lies at the heart of our social and political life. Legal philosophy, or jurisprudence, explores the notion of law and its role in society, illuminating its meaning and its relation to the universal questions of justice, rights, and morality. In this Very Short Introduction Raymond Wacks analyses the nature and purpose of the legal system, and the practice by courts, lawyers, and judges. Wacks reveals the intriguing and challenging nature of legal philosophy with clarity and enthusiasm, providing an enlightening guide to the central questions of legal theory. In this revised edition Wacks makes a number of updates including new material on legal realism, changes to the approach to the analysis of law and legal theory, and updates to historical and anthropological jurisprudence. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.