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In:Handbook of Terminology: Volume 3. Legal Terminology
Edited by Łucja Biel and Hendrik J. Kockaert
[Handbook of Terminology 3] 2023
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Visualizing EU law through meta-concepts and legal formants

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Published online: 1 December 2023
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Abstract
The chapter suggests an interdisciplinary approach to EU law and to European autonomous concepts, through the use of comparative law and semiotics. The object of the research is the EU legislation (a meta-language, in comparative-semiotics perspective), EU concepts (a system of signs, according to semiotics) and their interpretation (case law formant, in comparative law analyses) and transposition (national legislation formant) in the Member States. This approach to EU law and concepts highlights that the interrelation between EU legislation and the normative forces grounding the practices of law in Europe are giving rise to common contexts of meanings in the European legal setting.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.EU concepts in the Member States
  • 3.Comparative law and legal formants
  • 4.Semiotics and the meta-concept
  • 5.Meta-concepts and EU formants: A case study of EU Framework Directive 2008/98 on waste (2018 version)
  • 6.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
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