Part One:Introduction 3
Chapter 1 Mapping the Issues 3
Part Two:Greimasian Semiotics and LawChapter 2 Structural Semantics and Legal Language 31
Chapter 3 The Syntagmatic Level of Legal Discourse 51
Chapter 4 The Paradigmatic Level of Legal Discourse 74
Chapter 5 The ‘Legal Grammar’ 111
Chapter 6 Preliminary Conclusions for Legal Theory 123
Part Three:Semiotic Presuppositions of Legal Theorists 147
Chapter 7 Hart and the Semiotics of Legal Rules 147
Chapter 8 MacCormick and the Semiotics of Legal Doctrine 167
Chapter 9 Dworkin and the Semiotics of Legal Argument 192
Chapter 10 Kelsen and the Semiotics of Legal Acts 225
Part Four:Conclusions 267
Chapter 11 Pragmatics, Validity and the Unity of the Legal System 267
Chapter 12 Towards a Semiotic Model of Law 283
Notes 311
References 349