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Lawyers Making Meaning: The Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics

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The Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics is integrated in the regular program of a US Law School and student enrollment is honored with credit points. Hitherto, the study of Legal Semiotics has mainly been located outside the Law Schools in the US and the Faculties of Law in the EU. Two important questions within the more general theme of Legal Semiotics and Legal Education arose: (1) the program requirements in an education context, and (2) the attention and interests of the students. This IJSL issue offers essays presented during the Round Table which closed the Seminar, provides some experience-based suggestions for a Seminar program and discusses how to deal with the pragmatic attitude of law students. It interests how those topics relate to legal and semiotic literature and how they focus globally important viewpoints, as can be concluded in the example of the legal semiotics of family structures.

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    Jan M. Broekman & William A. Pencak

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Broekman, J.M., Pencak, W.A. Introduction. Int J Semiot Law 22, 1–10 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-008-9091-3

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