I am delighted to announce that Volume 39(5) of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law is now available online. It is a special issue, the theme of which is "Exploring Tensions in Law and Legal Semiotics" guest edited by Wei Yu, Kieran Tranter, and René Cornish. This Special Issue brings together a diverse range of contributions examining the tensions, complexities, and interconnections that shape law, legal language, and legal semiotics in contemporary societies.
The editors have this to say in the opening chapter (Tensions in Law: Contestation and Interconnection):
The inherent tensions of law lie in the competing understanding towards the legal concepts and principles. However, the understanding of the representation of the legal content, namely legal texts, can be different from judge to judge and from lawyer to lawyer. Opposing opinions get negotiated and settled under the legal framework. For example, in the judicial decisions of the common law legal system, judges who have different interpretations of legislation express their dissenting opinions in legal judgments. Such complex interpretations add another layer of tension for the legal disputes. And the representation of legal content itself can be different from the legal ideals in mind as well, as discussed above.
Many of the articles are open access. Titles, authors and links are provided below.
Volume 39, Issue 5
Exploring Tensions in Law and Legal Semiotics
- Issue Editors:
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- Wei Yu,
- René Cornish,
- Kieran Tranter
14 articles in this issue
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