playing law Mitchell, Dale 1951- editor. Pearson, Ashley (Ashley J.) editor. Peters, Timothy D. editor. text bibliography enk 2024 monographic eng

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viii, 313 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm. 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 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 general Edited by Dale Mitchell, Ashley Pearson and Timothy D. Peters. Includes bibliographical references and index. Video games Law and legislation Game laws Augmented reality Law and legislation Digital media Law and legislation Online identities K 3705 .V53 L39 2024 9781032054988 DLC 260306 20260925111520.0 on1477210834 eng