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Exploring Tensions in Law and Legal Semiotics

Legal semiotics is a dynamic field at the intersection of law, language, culture, and society, marked by the inherent tension between semiotic representation and legal interpretation. This special issue seek...

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Open

Submission deadline

15 January 2025

Gender and Law Issues

Law, as a mechanism capable of regulating the most varied spaces of public and private life, is not blind to gender. In this sense, the Special Issue “Gender and Legal Issues” of the International Journal fo...

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Closed

Legal Comparison beyond the Law in Late Rodolfo Sacco

The relationship between language and law has been a kind of ‘ground bass’—to use a musical metaphor—throughout Rodolfo Sacco’s long scientific journey. In his own unique way, this father of legal comparison...

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On Ricoeur: Justice, Hermeneutics, Responsibility, and Personal Identity

The work of Paul Ricoeur is animated by an insistent philosophical engagement with the position and orientation of human existence. An integral aspect of Ricoeur’s philosophical engagement concerns the relat...

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Open

Submission deadline

01 January 2025

Semiotic Assemblage, Translanguaging and Translating Laws of the Middle East and North African Region

The Middle East and North African region (MENA) is an interesting area where several laws ranging from sacred laws to secular laws are applied to different institutions in the area. The conceptual incongruen...

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Open

Submission deadline

15 June 2024

Spatial Dynamics and Cultural Changes in Contemporary Legal Experience

Law involves spatial dynamics, and as such law is like an integrated circuit with two main lines of development, at times autonomous, at others conflicting with each other to reveal a new vision of reality. ...

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Subjectivities, Religion, Discrimination: Spaces and Lexical Imaginaries for Ubiquitous Justice

Space and language are two dimension of human experience that are semiotically interlaced. Categorical frames are epitomes of circuits of experience. On the other hand, the Latin etymology of the word ‘term’...

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The Legal Semiotics of the Digital Face

How can semiotics and, especially, legal semiotics contribute to the understanding of how we make sense of such an important semiotic token as the face in the contemporary digital world? How have digital tec...

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Translation, Interpretation, and the Quest for Justice in Plural Societies

The interactive database Cultural and Religious Diversity under State Law across Europe (CUREDI), under development at the Law & Anthropology Department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (H...

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Closed