Susan Tiefenbrun

Decoding International Law (eBook, PDF)

Semiotics and the Humanities

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Produktbeschreibung

Violations of international law and human rights laws are the plague of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Violence and the flagrant violation of human rights have a naturally dramatic effect that inspires writers, film makers, artists, philosophers, historians, and legal scholars to represent these horrors in their work. In Decoding International Law: Semiotics and the Humanities, Professor Tiefenbrun helps readers understand international law as represented indirectly in the humanities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199749560
• Artikelnr.: 40175167

Autorenporträt

Susan Tiefenbrun received her J.D. from New York University Law School, a Ph.D in French literature with distinction from Columbia University, an M.A. in French and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin where she was Phi Beta Kappa as a junior and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Professor Tiefenbrun is Director of the Center of Global Legal Studies at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and Director of the LL.M. Programs in International Trade and Investment and American Legal Studies for foreign lawyers. She was awarded the French Legion of Honor, by Presidential Decree in 2003. Her special interests are international law, international business transactions, international intellectual property, international human rights law, and law and literature. She has written a book-length study of Soviet laws and Eastern European joint venture laws, numerous articles on international intellectual property and piracy, international human rights, as well as global sex trafficking. She is currently writing two books involving women's human rights laws and tax-free trade zones in the world and in the United States. She is President of the Law & Humanities Institute West-coast Branch. She founded two international law study abroad programs in France eighteen years ago and in China four years ago and continues to direct them both each summer. Professor Tiefenbrun speaks ten foreign languages.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* PART A: INTRODUCTION TO SEMIOTICS AND THE LAW
* Introduction
* Chapter 1. Legal Semiotics
* PART B: TERRORISM
* Chapter 2. A Semiotic Approach to a Legal Definition of Terrorism
* Chapter 3. State-Sponsored Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Role
of Story-Telling as a Self-Help Remedy: Law, Literature and Semiotics
* PART C: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
* Chapter 4. Deconstructing nullCivil Disobediencenull: A Semiotic
Definition
* Chapter 5. Semiotics and Martin Luther King's nullLetter from
Birmingham Jailnull
* Chapter 6. On Civil Disobedience, Jurisprudence, Feminism and the Law
in the Antigones of Sophocles and Anouilh
* PART D: WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS
* Chapter 7. The Semiotics of Women's Human Rights in Iran
* Chapter 8. Gendercide and the Cultural Context of Sex Trafficking in
China
* PART E: CHILDREN'S HUMAN RIGHTS
* Chapter 9. The Culture of Violence: Child Soldiers, Slavery and the
Trafficking of Children
* PART F: CULTURE AND SEMIOTICS
* Chapter 10. The Japanese Culture and Copyright Infringement,
Defamation, and Sex Trafficking: A Study of the Fictional Life of a
Geisha
* Chapter 11. The Impact of Culture on the Semiotics of Treaty
Interpretation: How Pirates Read and Misread the Berne Convention