Law and Language: Effective Symbols Of Community - Softcover

Berman, Harold J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1316619338 ISBN 13: 9781316619339

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Completed in 1964, Harold J. Berman's long-lost tract shows how properly negotiated, translated and formalised legal language is essential to fostering peace and understanding within local and international communities. Exemplifying interdisciplinary and comparative legal scholarship long before they were fashionable, it is a fascinating prequel to Berman's monumental Law and Revolution series. It also anticipates many of the main themes of the modern movements of law, language and ethics. In his Introduction, John Witte, Jr, a student and colleague of Berman, contextualises the text within the development of Berman's legal thought and in the evolution of interdisciplinary legal studies. He has also pieced together some of the missing sections from Berman's other early writings and provided notes and critical apparatus throughout. An Afterword by Tibor Várady, another student and colleague of Berman, illustrates via modern cases the wisdom and utility of Berman's theories of law, language and community.

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Review:

'... makes a provocative contribution to the more recently established movement known as 'law and language'.' International Journal for the Semiotics of Law

Book Description:

Completed in 1964, Harold J. Berman's long-lost tract shows how properly negotiated, translated and formalised legal language is essential to fostering lasting peace and common understanding within and across national boundaries. Hitherto unpublished, the work anticipates much of Berman's subsequent work in law and religion, and legal history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1316619338
• ISBN 13: 9781316619339
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222