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

Posted on by Thomas Giddens
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:
 
 
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 transmitted through another medium of analysis.
 
The International Journal for the Semiotics of Law welcomes innovative papers to document the diverse historical, cultural and communicative links that bind together Law and Comics/Cartoons under a comprehensive research analysis on legal visual semiotics.

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Published by Thomas Giddens

Thomas Giddens is senior lecturer in law at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. He researches critical, comics, and cultural legal studies. His most recent work is 'On Comics and Legal Aesthetics: Multimodality and the Haunted Mask of Knowing' (Routledge 2018). He founded the Graphic Justice Research Alliance in 2013 and edited the collection 'Graphic Justice: Intersections of Comics and Law' (Routledge 2015). He also edits the on-going 'Graphic Justice' special collection at The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship (www.comicsgrid.com) and is a founding Co-Director of St Mary's Centre for Law and Culture.