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It is over thirty years since Huntington Cairns wrote that for the first time since the ancient Greek philosophers “law as a field of speculative inquiry is a subject in which philosophers nowadays evince little interest” (1949:1). On the other hand, he pointed out, lawyers have become increasingly interested in the philosophy of law. As jurisprudence became a science of relations in its own right, the historical link between philosophy and law was severed.
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Kevelson, R. (1988). Legal Semiotics. In: The Law as a System of Signs. Topics in Contemporary Semiotics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0911-6_1
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