Phenomenological Reviews

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Legal theory and semiotics

on the origins of legal semiotics

Jan BroekmanLarry Catà Backer

pp. 89-97

Abstract

Two semiotic regions of importance are opened for legal semiotic approaches: person and personhood, or: legal subjectand legal person; individual and corporation. They are keys to modern politics in relation (as the CLS movement correctly understood) with the understanding of an engenderment of the self, as Kant, Hobbes and others initiated, and with the understanding of personhood as a politico-socio-juridical issue of modern globalizing culture. The latter item leads to an extensive and critical view on the US "Citizens United" judgment, which not only influences major regions of the political landscape and the election of the Presidency in the US, but also profiles a new politics paradigm on the basis of a 'semiotics of manipulation" supported by law.

Publication details

Published in:

Broekman Jan, Catà Backer Larry (2013) Lawyers making meaning II: the semiotics of law in legal education. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 89-97

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5458-4_8

Full citation:

Broekman Jan, Catà Backer Larry (2013) Legal theory and semiotics: on the origins of legal semiotics, In: Lawyers making meaning II, Dordrecht, Springer, 89–97.