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18 Int'l J. Semiotics L. 1 (2005)

handle is hein.journals/intjsemi18 and id is 1 raw text is: VADIM VERENICH INTRODUCTION: THE PERSPECTIVES OF THE TARTU-MOSCOW SEMIOTIC SCHOOL ON LEGAL SEMIOTICS The current issue is focusing on Tartu-Moscow semiotic perspectives in regards to law articulated as the part of a fundamentally semiotic phenomenon - culture. Articles included herein aim at setting out a working definition of law in terms of Tartu-Moscow semiotic school glossary ('law as communication', 'law as myth', 'law as text', 'law as a secondary modeling system'). Having said this, it is clear that the title Tartu-Moscow semiotics of law sets out a scholarly project, which could be labeled as the interdisciplinary leap from the wider perspectives of cultural semi- otics into a little bit more sophisticated field of law, for setting up the principles, which are valid for description of law as a semiotic event within the semiosphere - a semiotic space necessary for existence and functioning of languages. Before returning to description of a Lotmanian cultural semiotics, I would like to make an important observation: the last article of the current issue is an essay About Legal Philosophy, originally writ- ten in German by Ilmar Tammelo, possibly the most famous Esto- nian legal researcher, who sought to construct both modern logic of law as well as new legal philosophy of justice. Living in Australia and Germany after the Soviet occupation of Estonia in 1944, and working in the traditional veins of Julius Stone, Chaim Perelman, Theodor Viehweg, Ron Klinger, Pamela Cureton, Michael Inglis, Anthony Blackshield, he came to develop his own consistent theory of law, that - at least implicitly - establishes harmony with Tartu- Moscow model and thus makes an important contribution to a robust semiotics of law. A note of warning should be put here. Although the discussion in Tammelo's article concerns exclusively the humanitarian dimension of the concept of the justice in its relation, Tammelo was always sympathetic with a semiotic theory of law. In his outlines of modern logic, he placed semiotics (as a subdivision of logic) within the integral framework of conceptualizing law. Despite the fact that there were not a personal mediation or any collaborative link between I. Tammelo and J. Lotman, they both were preoccupied with basi- cally the same model of communication. The importance of Tammelo International Journal for the Semiotics of Law Revue Internationale de Semiotique Juridique (2005) 18: 1-4 DOI 10.1007/s11196-004-7928-y © Springer 2005

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