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Lines of relation between semiotics and law have been drawn from several perspectives for more than half a century now. These areas of research demonstrate definite overlap. For example, the problem of interpretation of law features in both realms. Whereas semiotics is interested in the question of how the norm gains a meaning and what the structure of a meaning is, the question from a legal point of view is how to achieve conditions wherein a meaning of a norm is as constant as possible between interpreters and over different periods of time. The aim for this article is to examine whether the structure of meaning proposed in cultural semiotics by the Tartu–Moscow School of Semiotics (TMS) is applicable for the interpretation of undefined legal concepts and to the fulfilling of legal gaps. To accomplish this end, one must 1) introduce the chosen semiotic basis; 2) legitimately conclude that the TMS ideas should be applied to interpretation of law; and 3) from examples of case law, ascertain whether the semiotic findings identified truly appear in legal practice. This article focuses on the implementation of the TMS semiotic programme for undefined legal concepts and for legal gaps. Research on this specific question has not been carried out before.

Interpretation of Undefined Legal Concepts and Fulfilling of Legal Gaps, in Juri Lotman’s Semiotic Framework