Semiotics : a fresh start for law -Signs, and signs in law -Peirce and legal semiotics -Greimas, law, discourse and interpretative squares : the precursor De Saussure -Greimas, law, discourse and interpretative squares : an author, his squares and legal discourse analysis -Lacan : the semiotics of law's voices -Those three godfathers, after all -Legal theory and semiotics : on the origins of legal semiotics -Legal theory and semiotics : semiotics, theory and practice of law -Legal theory and semiotics : the legal semiotics critical approach -Politics, semiotics and law : self and state -Politics, semiotics and law : person and thing -Structuralism and legal semiotics -The legal semiotic modus operandi -The legal semiotic modus operandi : squares -The legal semiotic modus operandi : names -Artificiality and naturalness : the Tyche deity -A legal semiotics vocabulary.