Durant, A.

Harold Berman's: Law and Language [Book review]

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Durant, A. 2015. Harold Berman's: Law and Language [Book review]. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique. 28 (2), pp. 427-432. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-014-9389-2

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Title	Harold Berman's: Law and Language [Book review]
Authors	Durant, A.
Abstract	This article reviews and discusses Harold Berman’s, 'Law and Language', published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. It locates this short book in relation to Berman’s extensive body of publications in international and comparative law, and asks what contribution the book’s recent, posthumous publication (40 years after Berman wrote the ﬁrst draft and 7 years since his death) can make to current debates over approaches to forensic linguistics. Particular attention is given to Berman’s conceptualisation of law as a ‘living language’, as well as to his coining of the term ‘communiﬁcation’ to describe the value of legal-lay dialogue in building a public sense of community and in sustaining the legitimacy of legal systems.
Keywords	legal language, living language, forensic linguistics, community, interdisciplinarity
Publisher	Springer
Journal	International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique
ISSN	0952-8059
Online	14 Aug 2014
Print	01 Jun 2015
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Deposited	01 Sep 2015
Accepted	06 May 2014
Output status	Published
Additional information	First published online: 14 August 2014
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-014-9389-2
Language	English

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