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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Contents -- Part one: Presuppositions: The Map and the Legend -- Part two: Reclamation of the Indeterminate Ground -- Part three: Statements on 'Restatements': Conflicts and Agon in Legal Realism -- Part four: Powers of Legal Persons: Issues in Conflict of Laws -- Part five: Toward an 'Esthetics' of Praxis: Freedom as Peirce's Philosophical Gold -- Afterword: The Grin of the Cheshire Cat and the Triumph of Utterable Chaos -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Backmatter

I Introduction to Legal Semiotics -- 1 Legal Semiotics: The Peircean Frame -- 2 Staking the Claim/Walking the Field -- 3 Perspectives on the Legal System -- 4 A Comparatist View -- 5 Global Developments -- II The Open Hand -- 6 The Art of Conversation -- 7 Riddles, Legal Decisions, and Peirce's "Existential Graphs" -- 8 Speech Acts: Decisions -- 9 Pure Play: Rules of Law and Rules of Conduct -- 10 Limits of Authority in Law -- III Quid Pro Quo -- 11 Contracts and Equivalences -- 12 The Mapping of Morals onto Law: Problems of Rights, Ethics, and Values -- 13 Economic Justice: The "Takings Clause" and Legal Interpretation -- 14 Economic Links with Law: The Market as Sign of a Free Society -- 15 Signs of the Naked and the Dressed: Contract and Cause in Law -- IV Interpretation and Value -- 16 Origins and Development: Hermeneutics of Law and Politics -- 17 American Realism -- 18 The Constitution as Interpretant Sign -- 19 Property I -- 20 Property II -- V Inquiry as Method of Freedom -- 21. Inquiry and Discovery Procedures -- 22 Conflict of Laws: A Complex Indexical Sign -- 23 The Means-End Process of Freedom in Law -- References.

to the Second Round Table on Law and Semiotics: Pragmatic Method and Some Consequences -- The Semiotics of Finnish Constitutional Law on Government Finance -- How Judges Fool Themselves: The Semiotics of the Easy Case -- What is a Hay Baler? The Semiotic Answer from Contract Law -- Drafting and Interpreting Legal Documents -- Metaphor and Adlinguisticity in the Literacy Language of Michel Foucault -- Mediation and Conflicts of Moralities -- Decoding the Code -- Modalities of Annunciation: An Introduction to Courtroom Speech -- Statutes in Common Law and Civil Law: Their Interpretation and -- The New Realism and Lawlessness in Kaleidoscope -- The Problem of Mother's Brother in "Oedipus": A Structural View of Sophocles's Theban Plays -- Law and the Importance of Feelings -- Rhetoric and Legitimation: An Analysis of Supreme Court Reversals -- "The Verdict": Dark Film Explores the Underside of the Law -- The Technologizing of the Law -- Sign of the Crimes: Medico-Legal Contexts of Detective Fiction -- Gender and Justice in Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers" -- Eric Voegelin's Semiotics of History -- Legal Realism in a Cross-Cultural Context -- In Search of the Truly Fake: Aspects of Iconicity and Deceit -- "Everybody Pays - Even for Things They Didn't Do": The Justice of Vengeance in Richard Bachman's "Thinner" -- The Deconstruction of the First Amendment: Philosophical Reflections on the Foundation of the City in Speech -- The Interpretation of Statutes in Hermeneutical Perspective: Can the Dangers of Scylia and Charybdis Be Avoided?.

to the First Round Table on Law and Semiotics -- Analytical Rhetoric, Semiotic and Law -- The Semiotic Web of the Law -- The Shopping Mall: Signs of Power -- The Prescriptions of the New Hobbesian Contractarian -- Animals as Property and the Law -- The Problem of Normative Authority in Legal Interpretation -- Natural Law and Emancipation: Toward a Theonomous Democracy -- Communication Research and the Practice of Lawyering: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog? -- Psychoanalysis in Legal Education: Notes on the Violence of the Sign -- The Rhetoric of Esotericism: The 'Challenge' to Deconstruction -- Legitimizing 'Repugnancy' in Law: Peirce and Contradiction -- Constitutionalism: Principle and Policy -- The United States Constitution: A Semiotic Interpretation -- The Merely Symbolic.