Languages of the Law

Dr. iur. Verena Klappstein M.A., LL.M. currently works at the Institute for German and European Private Law, Civil Procedure Law and Legal Theory, professorship of Prof. Dr. Thomas Riehm, Universität Passau. Verena does research in Civil Law, Company Law and Legal Fundaments. Besides working on her Habilitation, current projects are on (Legal) Reasoning and procedural law.

Dr Maciej Dybowski is an assistant professor in the Department of Legal Theory and Philosophy at Adam Mickiewicz University where he completed his master's degree in law and Ph.D. He also holds master's degree in philosophy from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Maciej's research interests include philosophy of law, axiology, philosophical anthropology and philosophy of language. More specifically, his work focuses on analytic pragmatism in legal philosophy, practical reasoning and philosophy of human rights.

Languages of the Law: Vocabularies and Uses. Introduction.- Part I. Legal Language, Signs & Speech Acts.- Language of the Law as a Sign and as a Symbol.- Listing Acts of Legal Communication: An Extension of the Concept of Legal Language.- On Pineapple Wine: Compound Terms and the Ordinary Language(s) of the Law  .- Street Naming, Speech Acts and the Law.- Part II. Conceptualisation of Law via Language.- Law and (Conceptual) Revolution.- The Normativity of Law and Normative Vocabularies in Law: The Inferentialist Explanatory Route.- What Can Content-Force Distinction Teach Us About Law?.- Union is strength. Textual agency of constitutions in the integration of democratic communities.- Part III. Legal Reasoning.- Application and Applicability of the Law in Relation to its Validity.- The Application of Juristic Concepts in Legal Reasoning.- Stranger than legal fictions - the argument of analogy.- , "Legal practice" as a part of the Court of Justice of the European Union's vocabulary.