Decoding International Law

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Semiotics and the Humanities

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Intro
Contents
Acknowledgments
A. INTRODUCTION TO SEMIOTICS AND THE LAW
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Legal Semiotics
I. Introduction
II. Sources of Semiotics
III. Conclusion
B. TERRORISM
Chapter 3. A Semiotic Approach to a Legal Definition of Terrorism
I. Introduction
II. Elements of the Crime of Terrorism
III. The Many Definitions of Terrorism
IV. What is the Difference Between International and Domestic Terrorism?
V. Terrorism is not only a Crime but a Method to Achieve Self-Determination
VI. International Crimes are also Methods of Committing Terrorism
VII. If Terrorism is not only a Crime, but a Method or an Act of War, Then What Court Should Try International Terrorists?
VIII. The Paradoxes Inherent in the Meaning of Terrorism
IX. Literary and Cinematographic Representations of Terrorism
X. Conclusion
Chapter 4. State-Sponsored Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Role of Storytelling as a Self-Help Remedy: Law, Literature, and Semiotics
I. Introduction
II. The Legitimacy of an Interdisciplinary Method
III. Laws of Armed Conflict Represented in The Pianist
IV. Retributive Justice After World War II and the Nuremberg Trials
V. Restorative Justice and the Power of Art as Self-Help Remedy
VI. Conclusion
C. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Chapter 5. Deconstructing Civil Disobedience: A Semiotic Definition
I. Introduction
II. The Deep Structure of Civil Disobedience
III. Civil Disobedience and Terrorism
IV. Arguments for and Against Civil Disobedience
V. Civil Disobedience is not Protected by the Constitutional Right to Dissent or Free Speech
VI. Conclusion and the Delicate Balance
Chapter 6. Semiotics and Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail
I. Introduction: The Letter
II. Semiotics
III. Role of the Reader
IV. Genre of the Letter
V. Intertextuality and the Letter: Biblical Allusions
VI. Biblical Underpinnings of Martin Luther King's Anti-Law Stance
VII. Plato's Allegory of the Cave
VIII. Historical and Legal Context of the Letter
IX. Narrative Structure of the Letter
X. The Notion of Difference and "Différance"
XI. Natural Law Theory and Civil Disobedience
XII. For and Against Civil Disobedience: Dworkin and Bork
XIII. Conclusion
Chapter 7. On Civil Disobedience, Jurisprudence, Feminism, and the Law in the Antigones of Sophocles and Anouilh
I. Introduction
II. What is Civil Disobedience?
III. Civil Disobedience and Jurisprudence
IV. Hegel's Reading of Sophocles' Antigone
V. Antigone and Feminism
VI. Civil Disobedience in Sophocles' Antigone
VII. Civil Disobedience and Jean Anouilh's Antigone: A Parody
VIII. Conclusion
D. WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS
Chapter 8. The Semiotics of Women's Human Rights in Iran
I. Introduction
II. History of Women's Rights in Iran
III. Semiotics of Hejab, the Veil, and Women's Dress Code
IV. Signs of Women's Rights in Iran as Represented in the Humanities
V. Iranian Family Laws: Then and Now
VI. International Human Rights Laws Protecting Women's Rights and their Representation in the Humanities
VII. Conclusion
Chapter 9. Gendercide and the Cultural Context of Sex Trafficking in China
I. Introduction
II. Laws Protecting Women in China From Trafficking
III. Sex Trafficking in China
IV. Root Causes of Trafficking
V. Changing Role of Women in Chinese Society
VI. Policy Suggestions to Combat Sex Trafficking in China
VII. Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
VIII. Conclusion
E. CHILDREN'S HUMAN RIGHTS
Chapter 10. The Culture of Violence: Child Soldiers, Slavery, and the Trafficking of Children
I. Introduction
II. The Root Causes of the Use of Child Soldiers
III. Laws Relating to the Use of Child Soldiers
IV. Literary Representations of Child Soldiers
V. Conclusion and Proposals for Solutions
F. CULTURE AND SEMIOTICS
Chapter 11. The Japanese Culture, Copyright Infringement, Defamation, and Sex Trafficking: A Study of the Fictional Life of a Geisha
I. Introduction
II. Text
III. Context
IV. Subtext
V. Post-Text: The Complaint Iwasaki v. Arthur Golden and Publishers
VI. Pretext
VII. Conclusion
Chapter 12. The Impact of Culture on the Semiotics of Treaty Interpretation: How Pirates Read and Misread the Berne Convention
I. Introduction
II. Hermeneutics and Reader-Response Theory
III. Arguments for and Against Protecting Authors' Rights
IV. Piracy, The Berne Convention and Dramatic Irony
V. History of Copyright
VI. Copyright Theories and the Berne Convention
VII. Clashes of Culture
VIII. Berne Convention: Underlying Principles and Rights Theories
IX. U.S. and Chinese Compliance with the Berne Convention's Minimum Standards
X. U.S. Responses to the Berne Convention
XI. How the United States Reads the Berne Convention
XII. China's Responses to the Berne Convention
XIII. Hermeneutics and Cultural Difference
XIV. How China Reads the Berne Convention
XV. U.S. Views on Piracy of Patented Inventions as Expressed in Film: Flash of Genius
XVI. Conclusion
G. CONCLUSION
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