Law and Semiotics: Volume 2

to the Second Round Table on Law and Semiotics: Pragmatic Method and Some Consequences.- The Semiotics of Finnish Constitutional Law on Government Finance.- How Judges Fool Themselves: The Semiotics of the Easy Case.- What is a Hay Baler? The Semiotic Answer from Contract Law.- Drafting and Interpreting Legal Documents.- Metaphor and Adlinguisticity in the Literacy Language of Michel Foucault.- Mediation and Conflicts of Moralities.- Decoding the Code.- Modalities of Annunciation: An Introduction to Courtroom Speech.- Statutes in Common Law and Civil Law: Their Interpretation and.- The New Realism and Lawlessness in Kaleidoscope.- The Problem of Mother's Brother in "Oedipus": A Structural View of Sophocles's Theban Plays.- Law and the Importance of Feelings.- Rhetoric and Legitimation: An Analysis of Supreme Court Reversals.- "The Verdict": Dark Film Explores the Underside of the Law.- The Technologizing of the Law.- Sign of the Crimes: Medico-Legal Contexts of Detective Fiction.- Gender and Justice in Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers".- Eric Voegelin's Semiotics of History.- Legal Realism in a Cross-Cultural Context.- In Search of the Truly Fake: Aspects of Iconicity and Deceit.- "Everybody Pays - Even for Things They Didn't Do": The Justice of Vengeance in Richard Bachman's "Thinner".- The Deconstruction of the First Amendment: Philosophical Reflections on the Foundation of the City in Speech.- The Interpretation of Statutes in Hermeneutical Perspective: Can the Dangers of Scylia and Charybdis Be Avoided?.