The Law as a System of Signs

I Introduction to Legal Semiotics.- 1 Legal Semiotics: The Peircean Frame.- 2 Staking the Claim/Walking the Field.- 3 Perspectives on the Legal System.- 4 A Comparatist View.- 5 Global Developments.- II The Open Hand.- 6 The Art of Conversation.- 7 Riddles, Legal Decisions, and Peirce's "Existential Graphs".- 8 Speech Acts: Decisions.- 9 Pure Play: Rules of Law and Rules of Conduct.- 10 Limits of Authority in Law.- III Quid Pro Quo.- 11 Contracts and Equivalences.- 12 The Mapping of Morals onto Law: Problems of Rights, Ethics, and Values.- 13 Economic Justice: The "Takings Clause" and Legal Interpretation.- 14 Economic Links with Law: The Market as Sign of a Free Society.- 15 Signs of the Naked and the Dressed: Contract and Cause in Law.- IV Interpretation and Value.- 16 Origins and Development: Hermeneutics of Law and Politics.- 17 American Realism.- 18 The Constitution as Interpretant Sign.- 19 Property I.- 20 Property II.- V Inquiry as Method of Freedom.- 21. Inquiry and Discovery Procedures.- 22 Conflict of Laws: A Complex Indexical Sign.- 23 The Means-End Process of Freedom in Law.- References.