Table of contents for The law vs. the people : Twelfth Round Table on Law and Semiotics / edited by William Pencak ... [et al.].

Contents

In Memoriam: Roberta Kevelson                                ix
Introduction                                                 xiii
I    Can We Eliminate the "vs." from the Law vs. the People?
               William Pencak                                1
II   The New Natural Law: Cover-up or Cover Over?            15
               Roberta Kevelson                             
III  Law, Social Reproduction and the Materialist Semiotics
          of F. Rossi-Landi
               Howard Engelskirchen                          31
IV    in the Legal Leviathan: Unraveling the
          E(c)ho in the Judge's Chambers
               Geoffrey D. Klinger                           43
V    The Ghost of 'The People' in a Modern Legal Genre
               William E. Conklin                            61
VI   Fixing Broken Promises
               Joel Levin                                    77
VII  Power of the Person: Semiotics of the Self and Society
               Charls Pearson                                87
VIII Poison and the Laws of Arms: The Illegitimacy of
          Toxic Weapons in Ancient, Medieval, and
          Renaissance Warfare
               Phillip T. Rutherford                         95
IX   The Right to Legal Representation in South Africa:
          Who's Fooling Who?
               H. J. van As                                 111   
X    "The Law vs. the People": Apartheid in Alan Paton's
          Ah But Your Land is Beautiful
               Garry Wamser                                 123
XI   We, The People, and Them: Migrants and Others in
          Post-Modern, Post-Maastricht Europe
               W. T. Scott                                  143
XII  People Who Need Peuple: Politicizing Categories in
        Quebec Secessionist Discourse
               Christopher B. Gray                          169
XIII Registered Word Marks vs. Common Language:
        Semiotics of the Old
               Michal Ephratt                               185
XIV  Millennium, Man's Law and God's Law in the Rhetoric
        of The Christian Right-Wing Movements
               Jeff Brendle                                 211
XV   Rhetorical Statistics and Domestic Violence Law
               John P. Rooney                               235
XVI  Whining in the Spoiled Society: Can Semiotics
        Help Us Survive Prosperity?
               Robert C. L. Moffat                          243

XVII Fact and Fiction in Law and Order
               Bruce L. Rockwood                            257
XVIII The Meaning of Difference: Sexual Selection and
          the Laws of Evolution
               Sarah Goodfellow                             279
XIX  Love, Lust, Lies, Mozart, and the Office of the
          Special Prosecutor
               Mattie Scott                                 299
XX   Semiotic Blindness in the Film "Class Action"
               Denis J. Brion                               313
XXI  Psychoanalysis,Phenomenology,Existentialism,
          Structuralism, Symbolism, Aesthetics, Hermeneutics,
          Post-Modernism, Jurisprudence, and Semiotics
          of Baseball
               Robert Ginsberg                              339

Index of Persons                                            361
Index of Subjects                                           363