Explore: Symbolism In Law

1Premises and Conclusions

Symbolic Logic for Legal Analysis

By Robert E. Rodes (Jr.) and Howard Pospesel

This solidly written book explains the elements of contemporary symbolic logic, and examines the ways in which it illuminates the structure of legal reasoning and clarifies various legal problems. Offering a clear and succinct presentation of standard propositional and predicate logic, it presents the elements of standard logic and applies those techniques to legal materials. It covers the use of standard logic in legal argument, including the denial or distinguishing of premises and the rules of pleading, and makes extensive use of legal materials, cases and statutes, in both examples and exercises. Readers are also given strategies for handling major legal problems in standard logic, including ways for treating conditions contrary to fact, necessary and sufficient conditions, result within the risk, and intent. For logicians and philosophers of law.

2Trichotomy in Roman Law

By Henry Goudy

This solidly written book explains the elements of contemporary symbolic logic, and examines the ways in which it illuminates the structure of legal reasoning and clarifies various legal problems. Offering a clear and succinct presentation of standard propositional and predicate logic, it presents the elements of standard logic and applies those techniques to legal materials. It covers the use of standard logic in legal argument, including the denial or distinguishing of premises and the rules of pleading, and makes extensive use of legal materials, cases and statutes, in both examples and exercises. Readers are also given strategies for handling major legal problems in standard logic, including ways for treating conditions contrary to fact, necessary and sufficient conditions, result within the risk, and intent. For logicians and philosophers of law.

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• Title: Trichotomy in Roman Law
• Author: Henry Goudy
• Language: English
• Number of Pages: 90
• Genres: Law

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• Google Books ID: e902AAAAIAAJ

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3Studies in Mesopotamian Legal Symbolism

By Meir Malul

This solidly written book explains the elements of contemporary symbolic logic, and examines the ways in which it illuminates the structure of legal reasoning and clarifies various legal problems. Offering a clear and succinct presentation of standard propositional and predicate logic, it presents the elements of standard logic and applies those techniques to legal materials. It covers the use of standard logic in legal argument, including the denial or distinguishing of premises and the rules of pleading, and makes extensive use of legal materials, cases and statutes, in both examples and exercises. Readers are also given strategies for handling major legal problems in standard logic, including ways for treating conditions contrary to fact, necessary and sufficient conditions, result within the risk, and intent. For logicians and philosophers of law.

4Legal Emblems and the Art of Law

Obiter Depicta as the Vision of Governance

By Peter Goodrich

The emblem book was invented by the humanist lawyer Andrea Alciato in 1531. The preponderance of juridical and normative themes, of images of rule and infraction, of obedience and error in the emblem books is critical to their purpose and interest. This book outlines the history of the emblem tradition as a juridical genre, along with the concept of, and training in, obiter depicta, in things seen along the way to judgment. It argues that these books depict norms and abuses in classically derived forms that become the visual standards of governance. Despite the plethora of vivid figures and virtual symbols that define and transmit law, contemporary lawyers are not trained in the critical apprehension of the visible. This book is the first to reconstruct the history of the emblem tradition, evidencing the extent to which a gallery of images of law already exists and structuring how the public realm is displayed, made present and viewed.

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• Title: ➤  Legal Emblems and the Art of Law
• Author: Peter Goodrich
• Language: English
• Number of Pages: 313
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publish Date: 2014
• Genres: Art

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• ISBN-13: 9781107035997
• ISBN-10: 1107035996
• All ISBNs: 9781107035997 - 1107035996

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5Symbols of Law

A Contextual Analysis of Legal Symbolic Acts in the Old Testament

By Åke Viberg

The emblem book was invented by the humanist lawyer Andrea Alciato in 1531. The preponderance of juridical and normative themes, of images of rule and infraction, of obedience and error in the emblem books is critical to their purpose and interest. This book outlines the history of the emblem tradition as a juridical genre, along with the concept of, and training in, obiter depicta, in things seen along the way to judgment. It argues that these books depict norms and abuses in classically derived forms that become the visual standards of governance. Despite the plethora of vivid figures and virtual symbols that define and transmit law, contemporary lawyers are not trained in the critical apprehension of the visible. This book is the first to reconstruct the history of the emblem tradition, evidencing the extent to which a gallery of images of law already exists and structuring how the public realm is displayed, made present and viewed.

6Genealogies of Legal Vision

By Peter Goodrich and Valérie Hayaert

"This collection focuses on the history of legal emblems and the genealogy of law's visual structures. The growing interest in law and the visual has tended to focus in a somewhat lazy fashion upon film and law, rather than addressing the actual history of law's regimes of visual control. But early modern lawyers, civilian and common alike, developed their very own ars iuris or art of law. A variety of legal disciplines always relied in part upon the use of visual representations, upon images and statuary to convey authority and sovereign norm. Military, religious, administrative and legal images found juridical codification and expression in collections of signs of office, in heraldic codes, in genealogical devices, and then finally in the juridical invention in the mid-sixteenth century of the legal emblem book. This book traces the complex lineage of the legal emblem and argues that the mens emblematica of the humanist lawyers was the inauguration of a visiocratic regime that continues in significant part into the present and multiple technologies of vision. Bringing together leading experts on the history of legal emblems to address the critical question of why it was lawyers who authored the emblemata, and correlatively, what was the relation and role of these visual depictions of norms to the practice and performance of law, this collection provides a ground-breaking account of the long relationship between visibility, meaning and normativity"--

7From the Colonial to the Contemporary

Images, Iconography, Memories, and Performances of Law in India's High Courts

By Rahela Khorakiwala

"From the Colonial to the Contemporary explores the representation of law, images and justice in the first three colonial high courts of India at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras. It is based upon ethnographic research work and data collected from interviews with judges, lawyers, court staff, press reporters and other persons associated with the courts. Observing the courts through the in vivo, in trial and practice, the book asks questions at different registers, including the impact of the architecture of the courts, the contestation around the renaming of the high courts, the debate over the use of English versus regional languages, forms of addressing the court, the dress worn by different court actors, rules on photography, video recording, live telecasting of court proceedings, use of CCTV cameras and the alternatives to courtroom sketching, and the ceremony and ritual that exists in daily court proceedings. The three colonial high courts studied in this book share a recurring historical tension between the Indian and British notions of justice. This tension is apparent in the semiotics of the legal spaces of these courts and is transmitted through oral history as narrated by the judges, lawyers and court staff who are interviewed. The contemporary understandings of these court personnel are therefore seen to have deep historical roots. In this context, the architecture and judicial iconography of the high courts helps to constitute, preserve and reinforce the ambivalent relationship that the court shares with its own contested image"--

8Between Ordinary and Extraordinary

The Normativity of the Singular Case in Art and Law

By Angela Condello

In this essay Angela Condello argues that approaching normativity in art and law from the perspective of the singular case shows the importance of interdisciplinary legal scholarship. Singularities create room for extra-legal values to emerge as legitimate demands, desires, needs

9Les lois psychologiques du symbolisme

By Guglielmo Ferrero

In this essay Angela Condello argues that approaching normativity in art and law from the perspective of the singular case shows the importance of interdisciplinary legal scholarship. Singularities create room for extra-legal values to emerge as legitimate demands, desires, needs

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• Title: ➤  Les lois psychologiques du symbolisme
• Author: Guglielmo Ferrero
• Language: ➤  French - français, langue française
• Number of Pages: 278
• Genres: Association of ideas

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10Lex Romana Visigothorum

ad LXXVI librorum manu scriptorum fidem

By Gustav Friedrich Haenel

In this essay Angela Condello argues that approaching normativity in art and law from the perspective of the singular case shows the importance of interdisciplinary legal scholarship. Singularities create room for extra-legal values to emerge as legitimate demands, desires, needs

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• Title: Lex Romana Visigothorum
• Author: Gustav Friedrich Haenel
• Language: Latin - latine, lingua latina
• Number of Pages: 598
• Genres: Law, Visigothic

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