Die Sache : the foundationless ground of legal meaning /Francis J. Mootz III --Faces face to face /Jan M. Broekman --Tarski, Peirce and Truth-Correspondences in law : can semiotic Truth-Analysis Adequately describe legal discourse /Paul Van Fleet --History and semiotics : prelim…
The semiotics of law in legal education
Die Sache : the foundationless ground of legal meaning /Francis J. Mootz III --Faces face to face /Jan M. Broekman --Tarski, Peirce and Truth-Correspondences in law : can semiotic Truth-Analysis Adequately describe legal discourse /Paul Van Fleet --History and semiotics : prelim…
"Law school is a scary place for any new student. For an older ('non-traditional') student, it can be intimidating as well as being ill-designed for the needs of an older, second-career student with children, mortgages, and the like. This book compiles advice from the author, la…
In this linguistic study of law school education, Mertz shows how law professors employ the Socratic method between teacher and student, forcing the student to shift away from moral and emotional terms in thinking about conflict, toward frameworks of legal authority instead.
"Anyone who has attended law school knows that it entails an important intellectual transformation, frequently referred to as "learning to think like a lawyer." This process, which subtly induces students to think and talk in radically new and different ways about conflicts, is …
"Anyone who has attended law school knows that it entails an important intellectual transformation, frequently referred to as "learning to think like a lawyer." This process, which subtly induces students to think and talk in radically new and different ways about conflicts, is …