| Article | Methodological Meaning of Semiotics of Law and its Place in the Structure of Legal Cognition |
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| Authors | Pavlyshyn O. |
| Name of magazine | Legal journal «Law of Ukraine» (Ukrainian version) |
| Issue | 4 / 2014 |
| Pages | 160 - 165 |
| Annotation | Semiotics of Law is examined in the article as the philosophical and legal discourse paradigm which helps to overcome the principal opposition of classical types of understanding of law — Jusnaturalism and Legal Positivism. The paper shows methodological meaning of Semiotics of Law for the development of the modern legal theory and judicial practice. It is stated that the exploration of Semiotics of Law methodology and its further usage in the legal phenomena analysis could enrich the jurisprudence with the knowledge of functioning principles of different legal system elements and mutual relations between main forms of existence of law as a sign system. The place of Semiotics of Law in the structure of legal cognition is determined as a paradigm of law studies and the sign theory of Law. |
| Keywords | legal cognition, semiotics, semiotics of law, philosophy of law, reflection, paradigm, methodology, sign system. |
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