Languages of Law: From Logics of Memory to Nomadic Masks

by Peter Goodrich

Languages of Law is an original and comprehensive study of the history, symbols and languages of the common law tradition. While the first part of this stimulating contribution to modern legal theory, "Memory, Precedent and the Writing Systems of Law," examines the technological, professional and polemical contexts of legal writing as a distinctive system of inscription and documentation, the second part of the text, "Language, Image, Sign...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0297820249
• ISBN13: 9780297820246
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"