Visualizing EU law through meta-concepts and legal formants

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.