Editorial Introduction

This Special Issue (SI) had been originally intended as an opportunity for interim dialogue in anticipation of the 23rd International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law (IRSL), now postponed to 2023. Many of the essays, moreover, are the outcome of a Webinar, held online on September 16, 2021. Our aim in launching both the SI and the related Webinar was to promote a polyphonic and interdisciplinary elaboration of a kind of theoretical prolegomena to the 23rd IRSL. More specifically, we were interested in adopting contemporary global semiotics as a lens for a renewed analysis of the relationship between ‘facticity’ and ‘normativity’ in legal experience; under this lens, what would be the consequences for legal theory?