Legal Semiotics and Semiotic Aspects of Jurisprudence

Jackson, Bernard S.

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“…Taking shield in the crafted veil of the amorality of Criminal Law certainly needs to be denied to the State and its various actors. Legal semiotics must problematize the notions of unity of law which claims that—law, its written expression, the legal structure of a particular State, and the ideological manifestation of the concept, all belong to a single system, the legal system [ 90 ]. This presupposition promotes the predominant positivists’ paradigm within legal studies [ 90 ].…”

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“…Legal semiotics must problematize the notions of unity of law which claims that—law, its written expression, the legal structure of a particular State, and the ideological manifestation of the concept, all belong to a single system, the legal system [ 90 ]. This presupposition promotes the predominant positivists’ paradigm within legal studies [ 90 ]. The unity of the criminal justice system also needs to be problematized by the analysis of different sign types involved in the application of Criminal Laws.…”

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Of Semiotics, the Marginalised and Laws During the Lockdown in India

Tiwari

Parmar

2022

Int J Semiot Law

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On 24th March 2020, the first nationwide complete lockdown was announced by the Prime Minister of India for 21 days which was later extended to 31st May 2020. Consequently, thousands of migrant workers placed in big cities had no other option but to go back to their native villages. Their journeys back to villages- thousands of kilometres on bicycles or foot due to the non-availability of public transport amidst the travel ban- were driven by the compulsions of food and shelter. In one of many heart-wrenching incidents, sixteen laborers were run over by a freight train (all passenger trains in the wake of lockdown had been halted) while they were resting on the railway tracks. The images of the Roti (Indian bread) on the railway track strewn across were beamed on the national news channels, as a telling commentary of the unimaginable hardships of these workers. Ironically, in the eyes of law, they were trespassers under the Indian Railways Act, 1989. The Indian Railway did not pay any compensation to the victims. Their act also violated the Indian Disaster Management Act, 2005 and Indian Penal Code, 1860- the law for the breach of lockdown guidelines and the law for disobedience of order by public servants respectively- for having decided to travel amidst a travel ban. The semiotics of law-making acts ‘criminal’ bereft of ‘moral culpability’ are seldom questioned on their supposed amoral foundations. Pandemic exhibited that social fissures not only condition the individual or community actions but also the actions of the State. Minorities especially Muslims were at the receiving end of State’s selective enforcement of lockdown laws in India. The various instances in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic expose the hollow claims of equality before the law and the equal protection of laws as a constitutional promise to every citizen. This article aims to unravel the ostensible and the actual moral exhibition of such Indian laws through the lens of several incidents during the nationwide lockdown in India. This paper would argue that this constructed positivist amorality needs to be deconstructed to unearth the power imbalance that it seeks to hide.

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Of Semiotics, the Marginalised and Laws During the Lockdown in India

Tiwari

Parmar

2022

Int J Semiot Law

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“…демократизация и права человека -1/2022 ОБЩЕСТВО И ПРАВО Хотя в области изучения символов права проведен ряд исследований, на сегодняшний день отсутствует общий подход к вопросу о статусе юридической семиотики. Одни ученые определяют его как раздел общей семиотики, другие -как вспомогательную юридическую науку, раздел теории государства и права, третьи -как метод правового исследования 21 . Есть и те, кто сомневается в возможности применения семиотических методов в юридической науке 22 .…”

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“…Отсутствие единого мнения среди юристов по вопросу о статусе юридической семиотики связано с относительной новизной и малым количеством комплексных фундаментальных исследований в этой области. Б. Джексон говорит, что отсутствие общего подхода к статусу правовой семиотики делает эту область одновременно и интересной, и блестящей 25 .…”

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Общество И Право Возникновение И Развитие Концепции Юридической Семиотики – Науки О Символах Права

Уткир¹

2021

Democracy and Human Rights

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В статье исследуется процесс зарождения и развития концепции науки о символах права – юридической семиотики и проблемы определения ее статуса. Мақолада ҳуқуқ рамзлари тўғрисидаги фан – ҳуқуқий семиотика тушунчасининг келиб чиқиши ва ривожланиши, мақоми муаммоси ўрганилган. The articles discusses the origin and development of the concept of the science of the symbols of law – legal semiotics and the problem of determining its status

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“…Friedrich von Hayek (1945), to take a rather different thinker, also contributes to an ontology of process though his insights concerning the dispersal of knowledge among individuals and how markets can bring about economic processes of spontaneous ordering based on the use of this knowledge. A third and final example is the emergence in the twentieth century of philosophical ideas about language that spread to produce, among other things, analyses of rights not as entities, but as behavioural outcomes of speech act processes ( Jackson 2010) and legal concepts as the outcomes of processes engaged in by interpretative communities (Robertson 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%