The law as a system of signsPDF电子书下载

PARTⅠIntroduction to Legal Semiotics 1

1 Legal Semiotics: The Peircean Frame 3

2 Staking the Claim/Walking the Field 13

3 Perspectives on the Legal System 23

4 A Comparatist View 33

5 Global Developments 49

PARTⅡThe Open Hand 57

6 The Art of Conversation 59

7 Riddles, Legal Decisions, and Peirce's "Existential Graphs" 79

8 Speech Acts: Decisions 103

9 Pure Play: Rules of Law and Rules of Conduct 113

10 Limits of Authority in Law 125

PART Ⅲ Quid Pro Quo 135

11 Contracts and Equivalences 137

12 The Mapping of Morals onto Law: Problems of Rights, Ethics, and Values 151

13 Economic Justice: The "Takings Clause" and Legal Interpretation 167

14 Economic Links with Law: The Market as Sign of a Free Society 181

15 Signs of the Naked and the Dressed: Contract and Cause in Law 195

PART IV Interpretation and Value 203

16 Origins and Development: Hermeneutics of Law and Politics 205

17 American Realism 219

18 The Constitution as Interpretant Sign 231

19 Property I 241

20 Property II 255

PART Ⅴ Inquiry as Method of Freedom 271

21 Inquiry and Discovery Procedures 273

22 Conflict of Laws: A Complex Indexical Sign 287

23 The Means-End Process of Freedom in Law 295

References 303

Index 321