Law and Semiotics: Volume 1

to the First Round Table on Law and Semiotics.- Analytical Rhetoric, Semiotic and Law.- The Semiotic Web of the Law.- The Shopping Mall: Signs of Power.- The Prescriptions of the New Hobbesian Contractarian.- Animals as Property and the Law.- The Problem of Normative Authority in Legal Interpretation.- Natural Law and Emancipation: Toward a Theonomous Democracy.- Communication Research and the Practice of Lawyering: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog?.- Psychoanalysis in Legal Education: Notes on the Violence of the Sign.- The Rhetoric of Esotericism: The 'Challenge' to Deconstruction.- Legitimizing 'Repugnancy' in Law: Peirce and Contradiction.- Constitutionalism: Principle and Policy.- The United States Constitution: A Semiotic Interpretation.- The Merely Symbolic.