Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics

Edited by Anne Wagner, Research Associate Professor, Centre de Recherche Droits et Perspectives du Droit, équipe René Demogue, University of Lille, France and Sarah Marusek, Professor of Public Law, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai‘i Hilo, US

Contents:

Foreword xviii
John Brigham
Preface xxiv
Acknowledgements xxv
Introduction: law as a strategical system of fluctuating signs 1
Anne Wagner and Sarah Marusek

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