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Languages of Law: From Logics of Memory to Nomadic Masks

By Peter Goodrich

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1990
ISBN
0297820249, 9780297820246
Open Library ID
OL9598820M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
79 MB (83232295 bytes)
Series
Law in Context
Pages
368\184
Topic
Jurisprudence Law
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

Languages of Law is an original and comprehensive study of the history, symbols and languages of the common law tradition. While the first part of this stimulating contribution to modern legal theory, 'Memory, Precedent and the Writing Systems of Law,' examines the technological, professional and polemical contexts of legal writing as a distinctive system of inscription and documentation, the second part of the text, 'Language, Image, Sign and Common Law' moves from historical to substantive analysis. The final chapters concentrate on the visual legitimacy and symbols of law, and advance an original theory of the acceptance of law as a question of the imagery and aesthetics of legal representation. This is a book for students of legal history, legal system and legal method, jurisprudence and sociology of law, and for students of the history of language.

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