03150cam a22004578i 4500 on1477210834 OCoLC 20260925111520.0 260306s2024 enka g b 001 0 eng d 9781032054988 paperback (OCoLC)1477210834 DLC eng DLC prpcul rda cicg K 3705 .V53 L39 2024 Law, video games, virtual realities : playing law / Edited by Dale Mitchell, Ashley Pearson and Timothy D. Peters. London : Routledge, 2024. viii, 313 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier TechNomos Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: Playing Law / Dale Mitchell, Ashley Pearson, and Timothy D. Peters Part I: Code as Law, Law as Play Towards a Legal Ludology: Language Games, Playful Magic, and the Game of Law / Dale Mitchell -- Invisible Walls: Facts and Freedom in the Coded Space / James C. Fisher -- Emergent Governance From Polycentric Order in Virtual Reality Social Spaces / Anne Hobson -- Emergent Systems: Virtuality, Legality, Formality / Daniel Hourigan -- Decoding Legal (Un)certainty in Doki Doki Literature Club! / Ashley Pearson Part II: Worldbuilding and Subject Formation Playing With Borders: Using Video Games to Bring Emotion Into the Law Classroom / Jean Ketterling -- One More Turn: The Gamic Afterlives of Johnson v M'Intosh and Digital Settler Colonialism in Sid Meier's Civilization VI / S. Thomas Keynes -- Playing the World Picture: Sid Meier's Civilization and the Law of Abstraction / Kieran Tranter -- A Minor Jurisprudence of Play: Becoming Jurisprudents Through Play in the Majora's Mask / Joshua D. M. Shaw Part III: Sites of Law and Jurisprudence Gaming at the Margins of Law or, Niko Bellic's (Critical) Game Theory of Justice / Luis Gómez Romero -- Law Among Chaos: An Anti-Schmittian Reading of Skyrim / Anna Lukina and Shane Finn -- Grand Theft Neoliberalism / James Gilchrist Stewart -- Terra Nullius: Claiming Land on Civilization's Empty Earth / Conor Leggott -- Game Over: On Emptying the Public Square / Desmond Manderson -- Index Featuring critical readings of video games as a means of understanding law and justice, this book contributes to the developing field of cultural legal studies but will also be of interest to other legal theorists, socio-legal scholars, and games theorists. -- first page Video games Law and legislation. Game laws. Augmented reality Law and legislation. Digital media Law and legislation. Online identities. Mitchell, Dale, 1951- editor. Pearson, Ashley (Ashley J.), editor. Peters, Timothy D., editor. lcc 6 305861 305861 0 0 lcc 0 0 7 7 12 2026-04-06 Caribbean Library Consulting Corp. 67.99 159542 0 K 3705 .V53 L39 2024 70000000906736 2026-09-25 11:17:00 2026-09-25 6