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Human Rights, Recognition and Decoloniality

The special issue aims to intertwine the decolonial perspective with the struggle for recognition and against discrimination, to listen to the voices of historically marginalized groups in order to define th...
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Law in an age of ‘permacrisis’

In 2022, Collins dictionary named ‘permacrisis’ the word of the year, which, as reported, described “the feeling of living through a period of war, inflation, and political instability.” Undoubtedly, the wor...
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Legal Code but Not Just One Mode: Multimodal Argumentation and Law

Multimodal argumentation theorists have so far mostly dealt with visual and aural argumentation, even though they admitted that there are many modes, not only verbal (written and oral) but also non-verbal on...
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15 September 2025

Labelling and Categorization in Criminal Justice and Legal Theory

This special issue aims to revisit language, a central research topic in a range of disciplines concerned with law or dealing with language in a legal setting, in particular the realm of legal semiotics whic...
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15 May 2025

Legal Semiotics and the Marginalized Body

This special issue seeks to attract a diverse array of scholarly contributions that offer both theoretical and empirical insights into the ways in which legal semiotics can either illuminate or obscure the p...
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15 May 2025

Public Vices, Poor Laws, and the Deterioration of Character

Virtue jurisprudence is interested in exploring the relationship between legislation's aims and promoting good character traits. On the other hand, this Special Issue delves into “vice jurisprudence”, examin...
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The Legal Semiotics of the Elders

As societies progress, legal interpretations evolve in tandem, influenced by social norms and experiences. The emergence of an “aging society” is a testament to this evolution, marked by a significant increa...
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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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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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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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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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