On Passages and Possibilities: Introduction | p. 1 |
Reflections on the Future of Criminal Justice: Issues for Theory, Method and Practice | p. 15 |
Poets' Reaction to Apartheid Laws | p. 27 |
The Illicit Reduction of Ontology to Epistemology in the Legal Enterprise | p. 45 |
Signs of Value: The Laws of Accounting Theory | p. 63 |
Making Differences and Making all the Difference: Community and the Dilemma of Difference | p. 81 |
A Utopian Proposal for the Improvement of our Prisons | p. 99 |
Semiotics, Legal Theory and the Study of Comparative Law | p. 115 |
Impressions of a Market Economy in China: Letters of Exchange | p. 125 |
Corporations and Conflicting Norms: Modal Frameworks for Vague Transnational Precepts | p. 143 |
Boyle's Lock'n'Key: Consent and Contract | p. 163 |
Pragmatism and the Limits of Rationality | p. 181 |
Civil Codes and the Case of Quebec: Semiotic Musings around an accent aigu | p. 195 |
Seals, Oaths and the Primacy of Ritual | p. 215 |
Evolution and 19th Century Legal Pragmatism: Darwin and Holmes | p. 231 |
From Racket to Natural Law: The Permutation of Smuggling and Free Trade | p. 245 |
Legal Semiotics and Normative Imposition in an African Context: The Case of the San/Bushmen | p. 261 |
Speech as a Universal Right: International Law and the Case of Salman Rushdie | p. 271 |
The Literary Fraud: An Intractable Problem for Law and Semiotics | p. 291 |
Customary Law as Common Law | p. 315 |
Land Usage as Privileged Discourse in Anglo-Australian Law | p. 329 |
The Mentally Retarded Defendant as Interpretant: Semiosis of Admissions | p. 357 |
Seeing Rhetoric as Law as Literature | p. 387 |
Subject Index | p. 403 |
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