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