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22 Int'l J. Semiotics L. 1 (2009)

handle is hein.journals/intjsemi22 and id is 1 raw text is: Int J Semiot Law (2009) 22:1-10 DOI 10.1007/si 1196-008-9091-3 Introduction Lawyers Making Meaning: The Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics Jan M. Broekman - William A. Pencak Published online: 27 January 2009 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 Abstract The Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics is integrated in the regular program of a US Law School and student enrollment is honored with credit points. Hitherto, the study of Legal Semiotics has mainly been located outside the Law Schools in the US and the Faculties of Law in the EU. Two important questions within the more general theme of Legal Semiotics and Legal Education arose: (1) the program requirements in an education context, and (2) the attention and interests of the students. This IJSL issue offers essays presented during the Round Table which closed the Seminar, provides some experience-based sugges- tions for a Seminar program and discusses how to deal with the pragmatic attitude of law students. It interests how those topics relate to legal and semiotic literature and how they focus globally important viewpoints, as can be concluded in the example of the legal semiotics of family structures. 1 The Seminar Under the patronage of its Dean, Professor Philip McConnaughay, Penn State's Dickinson School of Law agreed to program from January 2008 on a regular, three credit points Seminar on Law and Semiotics at the initiative and directed by Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law Jan M. Broekman. Students and Faculty participate in the two locations of the Dickinson School, in Carlisle and State College, Pennsylvania. The Seminar is named after the internationally renowned Penn State Philosophy Professor Roberta Kevelson (1931-1998). J. M. Broekman (E) - W. A. Pencak Dickinson School of Law, Penn State University, Carlisle, PA, USA e-mail: jmb56@dsl.psu.edu W. A. Pencak e-mail: wapl@psu.edu I Springer