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999			_c26807 _d26807
020			_a9781316619339
082			_a340.14 _bBER-L
100			_aBerman, Harold J.
245			_aLaw and Language _b: Effective Symbols of Community
260			_bCambridge University Press _c2016
300			_a222,pp.
520			_aCompleted in 1964, Harold J. Berman's long-lost tract shows how properly negotiated, translated and formalised legal language is essential to fostering peace and understanding within local and international communities. Exemplifying interdisciplinary and comparative legal scholarship long before they were fashionable, it is a fascinating prequel to Berman's monumental Law and Revolution series. It also anticipates many of the main themes of the modern movements of law, language and ethics. In his Introduction, John Witte, Jr, a student and colleague of Berman, contextualises the text within the development of Berman's legal thought and in the evolution of interdisciplinary legal studies. He has also pieced together some of the missing sections from Berman's other early writings and provided notes and critical apparatus throughout. An Afterword by Tibor Várady, another student and colleague of Berman, illustrates via modern cases the wisdom and utility of Berman's theories of law, language and community.
650			_aLaw--Language
700			_aWitte John, Jr.
942			_2ddc _cBK