Law, Video Games, Virtual Realities

Dale Mitchell is a Lecturer in Law at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Ashley Pearson is a Lecturer in Law at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Timothy D. Peters is Associate Professor of Law at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.

1. Introduction: Playing Law Dale Mitchell, Ashley Pearson, and Timothy D. Peters Part I: Code as Law, Law as Play 2. Towards a Legal Ludology: Language Games, Playful Magic, and the Game of Law Dale Mitchell 3. Invisible Walls: Facts and Freedom in Coded Space James C. Fisher 4. Emergent Governance from Polycentric Order in Virtual Reality Social Spaces Anne Hobson 5. Emergent Systems: Virtuality, Legality, Formality Daniel Hourigan 6. Decoding Legal (Un)certainty in Doki Doki Literature Club! Ashley Pearson Part II: Worldbuilding and Subject Formation 7. Playing With Borders: Using Video Games to Bring Emotion into the Law Classroom Jean Ketterling 8. One More Turn: The Gamic Afterlives of Johnson v M'Intosh and Digital Settler Colonialism in Sid Meier's Civilization VI S. Thomas Keynes 9. Playing the World Picture: Sid Meier's Civilization and the Law of Abstraction Kieran Tranter 10. A Minor Jurisprudence of Play: Becoming Jurisprudents Through Play in the Majora's Mask Joshua D.M. Shaw Part III: Sites of Law and Jurisprudence 11. Gaming at the Margins of Law or, Niko Bellic's (Critical) Theory of Justice Luis Gómez Romero 12. Law Among Chaos: An Anti-Schmittian Reading of Skyrim Anna Lukina and Shane Finn 13. Grand Theft Neoliberalism James Gilchrist Stewart 14. Terra Nulllius: Claiming Land on Civilization's Empty Earth Conor Leggott 15. Game Over: On Emptying the Public Square Desmond Manderson