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| A New Work on Law and Semiotics From Springer Posted: 05 Aug 2013 08:27 AM PDT Newly published: Law, Culture, and Visual Studies (Anne Wagner and Richard K. Sherwin, eds.; Springer, 2013). Link here. This work contains many interesting chapters including those by Peter Goodrich, Devising Law: On the Philosophy of Legal Emblems, Cristina Costantini and Lucia Morra, Representing Sovreignty in Renaissance England: Pictorial Metaphors and the Visibility of Law, Jessica Silbey and Meghan Hayes Slack, The Semiotics of Film in US Supreme Court Cases, Janet Ainsworth, What's Wrong With Pink Pearls and Cornrow Braids? Employee Dress Codes and the Semiotic Performance of Race and Gender in the Workplace, and Ronald R. |
Butters, Semiotic Interpretation in Trademark Law: The Empirical Study of Commercial Meanings in American English of { ▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄} (Checkered Pattern). All the chapters look fascinating. 
The Importance of William Blackstone's Commentaries
Posted: 05 Aug 2013 08:14 AM PDT
Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, is publishing William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Vol. 4 (1769), in Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law (Markus Dubber, ed.; Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Here is the abstract.
This book chapter discusses the fourth volume of Blackstone's Commentaries (1769), asking what contribution this volume makes to English criminal law. Issues addressed include the general structure of Blackstone's discussion, the relation between Blackstone's treatment and those of his precursors (especially Sir Matthew Hale and William Hawkins), the historical and literary range of Blackstone's references, the nature of his legal reform agenda, and his conception of the book's audience.Download the essay from SSRN at the link.
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