| Description |
1 online resource (x, 576 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Legal semiotics -- A semiotic approach to a legal definition of terrorism -- State-sponsored terrorism, the laws of war, and the role of storytelling as a self-help remedy : law, literature, and semiotics -- Deconstructing Civil disobedience : a semiotic definition -- Semiotics and Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham jail -- On civil disobedience, jurisprudence, feminism, and the law in the Antigones of Sophocles and Anouilh -- The semiotics of women's human rights in Iran -- Gendercide and the cultural context of sex trafficking in China -- The culture of violence : child soldiers, slavery, and the trafficking of children -- The Japanese culture, copyright infringement, defamation, and sex trafficking : a study of the fictional life of a geisha -- The impact of culture on the semiotics of treaty interpretation : how pirates read and misread the Berne convention |
| Summary |
Violations of international law and human rights laws are the plague of the 20th and 21st centuries. People's inhumanity to people escalates as wars proliferate and respect for human rights and the laws of war diminish. Decoding International Law analyses international law as represented artfully in the humanities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Semiotics (Law)
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Civil rights.
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International law.
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Culture -- Semiotic models.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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Civil rights
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Culture -- Semiotic models
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International law
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Semiotics (Law)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199749560 |
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0199749566 |
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9780199776061 |
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0199776067 |
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