International Journal for the Semiotics of Law Thematic Issue: Visualizing Law in Comics and Cartoons

Deadline to submit papers:  31 AUGUST 2014   Papers should not exceed 10,000 words (references included) Instructions for authors are available at: http://www.springer.com/law/journal/11196   Only papers submitted online will be evaluated: Submit online at https://www.editorialmanager.com/sela/ Papers submitted to the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law should evaluate how legal meanings are produced, distributed and construed. Legal culture is being…

Power, Capital, Chaos: Critical Legal Conference 2014

4-6 September 2014 University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Call for Papers Conference Theme: By ‘Power, Capital, Chaos’, we refer to a context of ongoing global economic crisis, the neo-liberal destruction of social democracy and the ever-widening entrenchment of inequalities of wealth, power and technology within and between a global ‘North’ and global ‘South’. A contemporary…

World Indigenous Legal Conference 2014

The World Indigenous Legal Conference 2014 will be hosted by the Indigenous Lawyers Association of Queensland, from 23-27 June 2014, at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. The theme of the conference is “Past, Present and Future”.  The conference will incorporate the 9th National Indigenous Legal Conference 2014. Held biennially, the World Indigenous Legal…

Law and the Visual: Transitions & Transformations: Humanities Research Centre, ANU, 7-8 July 2014

THE HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTRE AT THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S OLDEST AND BEST-KNOWN RESEARCH CENTRES IN INTERDISCIPLINARY HUMANITIES. AS PART OF ITS 2014 ANNUAL THEME, NOW SHOWING: CULTURES, JUDGEMENTS, AND RESEARCH ON THE DIGITAL SCREEN, WE ARE CALLING FOR PAPERS ON THEMES OF VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF LAW IN HISTORY AND THE…

Call for Papers: Legal Bodies: Corpus / Persona / Communitas 15-16-17 May 201

LUCAS (the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society) will host a three-day conference Legal Bodies: Corpus / Persona / Communitas on the various ways in which literary texts and art works have represented, interrogated or challenged juridical notions of ‘personhood’.  The guiding assumption behind this conference is that ‘personhood’ is not a (biologically)…

Call for Papers: The politics and law of Doctor Who

Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture Westminster Law School The politics and law of Doctor Who Symposium Announcement and First Call for Papers Friday 5th September 2014 University of Westminster Doctor Who is the BBC’s longest-running drama television series and the world’s longest-running science fiction series.  The massive public attention devoted to the show’s…

Wordless: Spiegelman and the Aesthetics and Ethics of the Graphic Novel

Law and humanities scholarship is interested in how we engage with texts as readers, spectators, listeners, judges, lawyers and critics—and how this has jurisprudential effect. The formal properties of literature, art, photographs, theatre or legal judgment invite particular modes of engagement, engender certain perspectives, and encourage specific forms of relation. A form which holds significant…