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"Recht ist Streit"
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 154.00Using linguistic instruments this work sets out to give a transparent description of the text-supported and discourse-based legal dispute in the process of reaching a legal judgement. It examines a corpus of authentic texts originating from six related legal cases in Germany, identifying distinct speech act patterns and the specific action strategies... more...
Families, Care-giving and Paid Work
Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 40.00This unique selection of chapters brings together researchers from a variety of academic disciplines to explore aspects of law's engagement with working families. It connects academic debate with policy proposals through an integrated set of approaches and perspectives. Families, Care-giving and Paid Work offers an original approach to a very topical... more...
Efficiency, Sustainability, and Justice to Future Generations
Springer Fachmedien 2011; US$ 109.99Fifty years after the famous essay "The Problem of Social Cost" (1960) by the Nobel laureate Ronald Coase, Law and Economics seems to have become the lingua franca of American jurisprudence, and although its influence on European jurisprudence is only moderate by comparison, it has also gained popularity in Europe. A highly influential publication... more...
Transparency, Power, and Control
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 124.95This book brings together academics and practitioners from a range of disciplines from more than twenty countries to reflect on the growing importance of issues such as social order, liberty and individual freedom in our international community. Contributors explore these issues from a range of perspectives as well as legal contexts. The collection... more...
It is Hereby Performed...
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1986; US$ 98.00This book deals with speech acts, especially performatives, that are regarded as ?operative? in legal discourse. After a detailed exposition of speech act theory in relation to legislative texts, the author discusses the legal document as a communicative act; potential speech acts and delegated legislation; wills, the marriage ceremony and statutes... more...
Linguistik rechtlicher Normgenese
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 168.00The analysis of legal texts in the context of legislation is a previously unexplored field of research. Consequently, this study examines the formation of legal norms using the example of the ?online search?. Taking over 1000 texts as reference material, the study illuminates the discourse actors, the semantic struggles and the process of legal textual... more...
Recht als Text
De Gruyter 1992; US$ 140.00Recht ALS Text: Linguistische Untersuchungen Zur Arbeit Mit Sprache in Einer Gesellschaftlichen Institution. more...
Europäische Methodenlehre
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 126.00In this handbook questions regarding the method behind European law, particularly European private law, are represented for the first time comprehensively and systematically for instruction and practice. In addition to the basics, the authors discuss the questions of method behind the primary and secondary law as well as the member states' (transfer)... more...
Reading Modern Law
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 125.00Reading Modern Law identifies and elaborates upon key critical methodologies for reading and writing about law in modernity. The force of law rests on determinate and localizable authorizations, as well as an expansive capacity to encompass what has not been pre-figured by an order of rules. The key question this dynamic of law raises is how legal... more...
Lawyers Making Meaning....
Springer 2012; US$ 69.99This book present a structure for understanding and exploring the semiotic character of law and law systems. Cultivating a deep understanding for the ways in which lawyers make meaningthe way in which they help make the world and are made, in turn by the world they create can provide a basis for consciously engaging in the work of the law... more...









