Social Media in Legal Practice

Introduction;

SECTION 1: SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE LEGAL COMMUNITY;






Environmental justice or 'government overreach': the rhetorical landscape of the Gibson guitar factory raids;



Trial by (social) media: Anglo-Saxon and Italian practises in the digital age;



Legally dead, illegally frozen? The legal aspects of cryonics as discursively constructed online by providers and the media;



The fuzzy line between media and judicial discourse: insights from the Pinto-Lopez Madrid Case;



Ideological positioning in Amnesty International human rights web-based documents;



Argumentation and video evidence in a legal context: an interdisciplinary case study from Brazilian military justice;
SECTION 2: SOCIAL MEDIA FOR CLIENT EMPOWERMENT;




The discursive construction of Hong Kong's Civic Square in the media: contesting social and legal perspectives;



Finding a way forward: a discourse analysis of the online popularisation of restorative justice in the United Kingdom;



Helping Aussie women online: a discourse analysis of the Australian e-safety commissioner website;



Discursive illusions and manipulations in legal blogs on medically assisted procreation: Parrillo v. Italy Case;



Jag 2.0: legal advice and dissemination in online military lawyer forums;



The web-mediated construction of interdiscursive truth(s) about the MMR vaccine: a defamation case;
SECTION 3: CHALLENGES AND WAY FORWARD;




The toxic proliferation of lies and fake news in the world of social media: is it time for the law to "unfriend" Facebook?;



'Fake news' as interdiscursive illusion: a challenge to law, social media, and free speech;



Information and communication technology in alternative dispute resolution: is it facilitative or disruptive?;