The legal semiotic modus operandi
pp. 195-201
in: , Lawyers making meaning II, Berlin, Springer, 2013Abstract
Three critical positions of legal semiotics in the waning of the CLS were highlighted as discussions within US Common Law legal scholarship. They all focus on a lawyer's attitude: (1) one in so far as legal meanings are installed in the lives of ordinary citizens, (2) a second on a lawyer's possible connection between a progressive standpoint in politics and semiotic knowledge or experience, whereas (3) a third made clear that legal education is inherently a process of attitude formation in view of future legal practices, so that the process itself remains in the realm of theory-formation. That particular focus shows clearly the relevance of Mr. Jourdain's parallel situation. He did not know that he wrote prose—do lawyers know that they write and operate semiotics? All three aspects, which fascinated CLS scholars, one must conclude, are at distance from this parallel as well as the practice of law.