Revolutions, Institutions, Law
Eleventh Round Table on Law and Semiotics
Will be published approx. on 1. August 1998
Book
Hardback
275 pages
978-0-8204-3482-7 (ISBN)
Description
Revolutions, Institutions, Law brings together scholars representing a wide range of academic disciplines to examine and discuss the role of law as mediator between social revolutions of all kinds and ideally stable social institutions. Semiotics is the point of view and referent theory that binds contributors into common focus on this triadic, dynamic interplay. From this perspective law-as-mediator is transformed no less than the forces of revolution on the one hand, and the forces of institutional stability on the other hand.
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Persons
The Editors: Joel Levin teaches Law and Philosophy at the Case Western Reserve University Law School. He is the author of How Judges Reason, and articles in the fields of jurisprudence, contracts, law and literature, and legal process. A practicing attorney who specializes in commercial litigation, Mr. Levin has also lectured and taught contract courses in the United States and Russia, and has a forthcoming book on contract theory.
Roberta Kevelson was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emerita and Director of the Center for Semiotic Research. She authored and edited more than two dozen books, all of which examine and develop facets of Peirce's thought. Professor Kevelson died in 1998.
Roberta Kevelson was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emerita and Director of the Center for Semiotic Research. She authored and edited more than two dozen books, all of which examine and develop facets of Peirce's thought. Professor Kevelson died in 1998.
Content
Contents: Joel Levin: Revolutions, Institutions, Law: An Overview - Keith Barbera: Simon Schama and the Death of Certainty - Denis Brion: The Semiosis of Liberty - Adrian Howe: Fictioning Truths in Aboriginal Land Claims in Australia - A Semiotics of the Mabo Case - Roberta Kevelson: Law's Revolution: Negation, and Property as Institution - Joel Levin: The Metaphysics of Contracts - Dragan Milovanovic: Lacan, Peirce and the Three Orders in Law: From Reification to Liberatory Semiotic Transpraxis - Robert Moffat: Cloning Hysteria: Can We Accept a Revolutionary Role for Science in the Human Future - Charles Pearson: Is the Law a Sign, or a Sign Process? - William Pencak: Is a Fair Trial Possible? The Collapse of the Jury System in Revolutionary America - Bruce Rockwood: Communication and Self-Governance: Is Democracy Possible? Martha Buell Scott: We, the People: Revolution and Authorial Identity - Wouter Werner: Valid White Lies, the European Court of Justice and Human Rights.