Decoding legal sign-systems reveals hidden power agendas in legal writing.

Evidence

As a legal scholar he is recognised for pioneering the application of semiotics to the law. He demonstrated that legal writing and thinking often contained (and obscured) hidden agendas, and altered power relations in ways not explicitly expressed. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 444

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the concept of semiotic legal analysis: that legal language embeds unstated power relations.
• XREF: Connects to general semiotics literature (Eco, Peirce) and to the book’s broader theme of Orientalist representation as ideology in disguise.