Contemporary Issues of the Semiotics of Law

Anne Wagner is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics affiliated with the Universit du Littoral, Cote d'Opale, France. Tracey Summerfield is at the School of Law, Murdoch University, Australia. Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts.

• IntroductionLaw's Garden of Forking Paths by Anne Wagner, Tracey Summerfield and Farid Samir Benavides VanegasPart I: The Interpretation and Pertinence of Law in the Global Age1. Refugee Meanings by Ian Duncanson2. Citizens, Immigrants, Anarchists and Other Animals by Annabelle Mooney 3. The Dialogistic Nature of Brazil’s Arbitration Law 9.307/96 by Celina Frade4. Constitutional ‘Communarchy’: A Constitution with Chinese Characteristics by Deborah Cao5. The Quest for Certainty in Recent US Constitutional Scholarship: Original Intent and the Practice of Constitutional ‘Creativity’ by Frederick P Lewis6. Celebrity as Authority in Law by John Brigham and Jill Meyers7. Writing Around the Censor: Gypsies, Thieves, and Rebels in Early Modern Spain by William PencakPart II: Cultural and Symbolic Analyses of the Law in Context8. Subversion in the World of Order: Legal Deconstruction as a Rhetorical Practice by Joanna Jemielniak9. The Substantive Issue and the Rhetoric of the Abortion Debate in Ireland by Sophie Cacciaguidi-Fahy10. Wealth of Terms—Scarcity of Justice? Term Formation in Statutory Definitions by Richard Foley11. Enduring Signs and Obscure Meanings: Contested Coats of Arms in Australian Jurisdictions by Richard Mohr12. Critical Race Reggae: The Sound of a Narrative by Aaron RS Lorenz13. Cromer's Olde England and the Dome's New Britain: Two Same/Different Imageries of the Law of Britain's Empire by Ronnie Lippens14. Law in the Age of Images: The Challenge of Visual Literacy by Christina O Spiesel, Richard K Sherwin, Neal Feigenson