RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON LEGAL SEMIOTICS

 

RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON 

LEGAL SEMIOTICS 

Anne WAGNER & Sarah MARUSEK (Eds)

 

Edward Elgar Publishing 

Sarah Marusek and I are delighted to announce that the « Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics » is now accessible online at:

 

https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/research-handbook-on-legal-semiotics-9781802207255.html

https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/book/9781802207262/9781802207262.xml

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

PART I LEGAL SEMIOTICS AS AN ARENA FOR LEGAL THOUGHTS

1 Understanding legal semiotics 11

Paolo Heritier

2 From analytical philosophy of law to legal semiotics 32

Marek Zirk-Sadowski

3 Legal philosophy and the promise(s) of legal semiotics 47

José Manuel Aroso Linhares

4 Legal semiotics, globalization, and governance 61

Larry Catá Backer

5 Legal semiotics and synaesthesia 86

Rostam J. Neuwirth

6 Constitutional semiotics as a post-positivist and post-modern approach to constitution and constitutionalism based on the linguistic, visual and emotional turns 105

Martin Belov

7 Semiotics and the space-time ingredients of legal experience 120

Mario Ricca

8 Narrative identity and human beings’ legal subjectivity 135

Bartosz Wojciechowski

9 Classical rhetoric, legal argumentation and the semiotics of law 146

Miklós Könczöl

10 Legal semiotics and Chinese philosophy 158

Magdalena Łągiewska

 

PART II CULTURE-BOUND LEGAL SEMIOTICS, THE BACKBONE OF THE LAW

11 Law and religion in the United States and Japan: a comparative semiotic perspective 171

Frank S. Ravitch

12 The view: propertizing the visibility of distance 184

Sarah Marusek and Anne Wagner

13 Semiotic insecurity and fake news law 193

Ahmad Pakatchi

14 Beware of (bad and dangerous) metaphors: remarks made at the intersection of cognitive linguistics and law 209

Angela Condello

15 Semiotics of international law 220

Michael Salter

16 Introducing forensic semiotics in criminal investigations 237

Marcel Danesi

17 Legal semiotics and types of arguments in human rights cases in Russia 254

Anita Soboleva

18 Semiotics and cultural heritage law 267

Kamil Zeidler

19 Semiotics of trademark law and brand intellectual property 278

Kristian Bankov

20 Legal semiotics, culture and femi(ni)cide 289

Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas

21 Sex trafficking of girl children: a legal semiotics study of the Convention on the Rights of the Child 300

Clara Chapdelaine-Feliciati

22 Coloniality, international human rights and legal semiotics from the margins 313

Elisabeth Roy Trudel and Amy Swiffen

 

PART III VISUAL LEGAL SEMIOTICS AS A FIGURATIVE SIGN-SYSTEM

23 Imaginal law 327

Peter Goodrich

24 The two-sided E-Agora 2.0: demojicracy and demonjicracy 338

Anne Wagner, Wei Yu, and Sarah Marusek

25 Photography, art, crime and law 353

Anita Lam

26 Image and the law – a Peircean approach to Mask Required posters during the COVID-19 pandemic 366

Nathalie Hauksson-Tresch

27 Cars and hate: legal semiotics of automobility and combustion masculinity 376

Kieran Tranter and Sarah Marusek

28 Legal semiotics, signs of colonization, signs of independence in India 394

Parineet Kaur

29 Comics and the law: jurisprudence with a comic face 404

Guilherme Vasconcelos Vilaça and Mark Thomas

30 Legal and social semiotics of environmental challenges 419

Dariusz J. Gwiazdowicz and Aleksandra Matulewska

31 Semiotic (de)construction of judges’ identities in China’s internet courts 433

Youping Xu

32 Legal scenographies and courts: tensions between past and present 447

Patrícia Branco

33 Law, music and semiotics 460

Robbie Sykes and Julia J.A. Shaw

Index 479