TY - BOOK ID - 78531805 TI - Law and language : effective symbols of community AU - Berman, Harold J. AU - Witte, John PY - 2013 SN - 1139891472 1107424453 1107422450 1316619338 1107419379 110741671X 1107420563 1139519719 1107418097 9781107416710 9781139519717 9781107419377 9781107033429 110703342X 1299842097 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Law KW - Language, Legal KW - Legal language KW - Legal style KW - Style, Legal KW - Bill drafting KW - Language. KW - General and Others UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78531805 AB - Completed 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. ER -