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 LAW11 Law and religion in the United States and Japan: a comparative semiotic perspective 171Frank S. Ravitch12 The view: propertizing the visibility of distance 184Sarah Marusek and Anne Wagner13 Semiotic insecurity and fake news law 193Ahmad Pakatchi14 Beware of (bad and dangerous) metaphors: remarks made at the intersection of cognitive linguistics and law 209Angela Condello15 Semiotics of international law 220Michael Salter16 Introducing forensic semiotics in criminal investigations 237Marcel Danesi17 Legal semiotics and types of arguments in human rights cases in Russia 254Anita Soboleva18 Semiotics and cultural heritage law 267Kamil Zeidler19 Semiotics of trademark law and brand intellectual property 278Kristian Bankov20 Legal semiotics, culture and femi(ni)cide 289Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas21 Sex trafficking of girl children: a legal semiotics study of the Convention on the Rights of the Child 300Clara Chapdelaine-Feliciati22 Coloniality, international human rights and legal semiotics from the margins 313Elisabeth Roy Trudel and Amy SwiffenPART III VISUAL LEGAL SEMIOTICS AS A FIGURATIVE SIGN-SYSTEM23 Imaginal law 327Peter Goodrich24 The two-sided E-Agora 2.0: demojicracy and demonjicracy 338Anne Wagner, Wei Yu, and Sarah Marusek 25 Photography, art, crime and law 353Anita Lam26 Image and the law – a Peircean approach to Mask Required posters during the COVID-19 pandemic 366Nathalie Hauksson-Tresch27 Cars and hate: legal semiotics of automobility and combustion masculinity 376Kieran Tranter and Sarah Marusek28 Legal semiotics, signs of colonization, signs of independence in India 394Parineet Kaur29 Comics and the law: jurisprudence with a comic face 404Guilherme Vasconcelos Vilaça and Mark Thomas30 Legal and social semiotics of environmental challenges 419Dariusz J. Gwiazdowicz and Aleksandra Matulewska31 Semiotic (de)construction of judges’ identities in China’s internet courts 433Youping Xu32 Legal scenographies and courts: tensions between past and present 447Patrícia Branco33 Law, music and semiotics 460Robbie Sykes and Julia J.A. ShawIndex 479

‘Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics stands as an invaluable and influential resource in the realms of legal semiotics, legal studies, semiotics research, and legal linguistics. Its wealth of content, inclusion of renowned scholars, and extensive coverage position make it a potentially enduring interdisciplinary work with significant implications for researchers, students, legal practitioners, and professionals across various fields interested in the intersection of law and semiotics.’