Background
Jackson, Bernard Stuart was born on November 16, 1944 in Liverpool, England.
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Semiotics and Legal Theory is an exercise in exposition, comparison, criticism, and construction. Jackson takes two very different intellectual traditions - structuralist semiotics as represented by A.J. Greimas and modern (mainly positivist) legal theory as represented by Hart, MacCormick, Dworkin, and Kelsen¡Xand by juxtaposing them seeks to clarify and assess their respective semiotic presuppositions, in order to lay some foundations for a semiotically sensitive theory of law. This book is designed for both jurists and semioticians. To facilitate access across the disciplinary divide, Jackson provides an abstract at the head of each chapter, which serves as both a summary and a conclusion to each section.
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This book explains and illustrates a variety of semiotic issues in the study of biblical law. Commencing with a review of relevant literature in linguistics, philosophy, semiotics and psychology, it examines biblical law in terms of its users, its medium and its message. It criticizes our use of the notion of 'literal meaning', at the level of both words and sentences, preferring to see meaning constructed by the narrative images that the language evokes. These images may come from either social experience or cultural narratives. Speech performance is important, both in the negotiation of the law and the narratives of its communication. Non-linguistic semiotic phenomena, utilizing other senses and involving such notions as space and time, also need to be taken into account. For the early biblical period, at least, conceptions of law based upon modern models need to be replaced by the notion of 'wisdom-laws'. Amongst the issues addressed in the course of the argument are the structure of the Decalogue, the role in the law of (Greenberg's) 'postulates', 'covenant renewal' and 'talionic punishment'.
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legal and religious studies educator
Jackson, Bernard Stuart was born on November 16, 1944 in Liverpool, England.
Bachelor of Laws with honors, University Liverpool, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford University, 1969. Doctor of Laws, University Edinburgh, Scotland, 1987.
Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, 1998.
Lecturer department civil law University Edinburgh, 1969-1976. Principal lecturer division law Preston Polytechnic, 1976-1977. Head department law Liverpool Polytechnic, 1977-1985, professor law, 1980-1985, University Kent, Canterbury, 1985-1989.
Queen Victoria professor law University Liverpool, 1989-1997. Alliance professor modern Jewish studies University Manchester, since 1997. Member Conseil d'administration Association Européenne pour la philosophie du droit, 1996-2000.
Senior associate fellow Oxford Center for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, 1984-1996. Emeritus professor University Liverpool, since 1997. Visiting assistant professor University Georgia School Law, 1968-1969.
British Council lecturer Academy Interchange with europe Scheme, University Rotterdam, University Amsterdam, 1975. Littman fellow Oxford Center for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, Hilary term, 1977. Faculty lecturer theology University College North Wales, 1980.
Catriona Gibson lecturer Faculty of Law, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 1980. Lady Davis visiting professor department bible Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1981. Speaker's lecturer in biblical studies University Oxford, 1983-1986.
Professor invité University Paris X, Nanterre, 1987-1988. Professor University Bologna, 1988. Caroline and Joseph Gruss visiting professor in Talmudic legal studies Harvard Law School, 1992.
Gastprof. Rechstheorie Katholieke University, Brussels, since 1992. Associate professor University Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne, 1994. Member management committee National Center for Cued Speech, 1985-1989.
Visiting professor University Geneva, 2002.
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Member management committee United Kingdom Law Technology Center, 1989-1992. Chairman BILETA Inquiry into Computer Provision in United Kingdom Law Schools, 1989-1991. Member northern circuit committee on computer support for litigation, since 1991.
Member Lord Chancellor's Area Criminal Justice Advisory Committee, since 1992. Member Jewish Law Association (honorary president 1984-1988, chairman publications committee 1984-1988, executive committee 1978-1992), British Association Jewish Studies (honorary president 1993), Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (senior associate since 1997, correspondent fellow 1996-1997), International Association for Semiotics of Law (secretary-general, treasurer 1987-1993), Society for Computers and Law (committee member 1993-1996).
Married Rosalyn Young, 1967. Children: Iain Charles, Judith Deborah.