LET’S SKILL ALL THE LAWYERS: SHAKESPEAREAN LESSONS IN LAW AND RHETORIC
LET’S SKILL ALL THE LAWYERS: SHAKESPEAREAN LESSONS IN LAW AND RHETORIC

Summary/Abstract: Shakespeare’s works present intriguing explorations of law and legal theory. Shakespeare helps demonstrate the flaws in command-theory positivism, natural law theory and prediction theory accounts of the law. Shakespeare’s works also provide insights into a workable jurisprudence complying with the semiotics of law and its ten inherent restraints (the “semiotic decalogue”). As a semantic enterprise, the semiotics of law necessarily involves rhetoric. Concomitant with Shakespeare’s legal explorations, his works explore rhetorical theory and practice and provide useful lessons in rhetorical success and failure.

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