Part One:Introduction

Chapter 1 Mapping the Issues

Part Two:Greimasian Semiotics and LawChapter 2 Structural Semantics and Legal Language

Chapter 3 The Syntagmatic Level of Legal Discourse

Chapter 4 The Paradigmatic Level of Legal Discourse

Chapter 5 The ‘Legal Grammar’

Chapter 6 Preliminary Conclusions for Legal Theory

Part Three:Semiotic Presuppositions of Legal Theorists

Chapter 7 Hart and the Semiotics of Legal Rules

Chapter 8 MacCormick and the Semiotics of Legal Doctrine

Chapter 9 Dworkin and the Semiotics of Legal Argument

Chapter 10 Kelsen and the Semiotics of Legal Acts

Part Four:Conclusions

Chapter 11 Pragmatics, Validity and the Unity of the Legal System

Chapter 12 Towards a Semiotic Model of Law

Notes

References