Ashley Pearson

Timothy D. Peters

Dale Mitchell

This edited volume explores the intersection between the coded realm of the video game and the equally codified space of law through an insightful collection of critical readings. Law is the ultimate multiplayer role-playing game. Involving a process of world-creation, law presents and codifies the parameters of licit and permitted behaviour, requiring individuals to engage their roles as a legal subject – the player-avatar of law – in order to be recognised, perform legal actions, activate rights or fulfil legal duties. Although traditional forms of law (copyright, property, privacy, freedom of expression) externally regulate the permissible content, form, dissemination, rights and behaviours of game designers, publishers, and players, this collection examines how players simulate, relate, and engage with environments and experiences shaped by legality in the realm of video game space. 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.

Playing Law

Law, Video Games, Virtual Realities

Anjula Mutanda

Ever wondered how Jennifer Aniston coped with her split from Brad Pitt, or what makes Madonna push herself to her limits? Now, with the help of an expert psychologist and show biz reporter, you can discover what makes celebrities behave the way they do and learn from their mistakes. Ashley and Anjula analyse the successes and failures of celebrities and explain their strategies for coping with the limelight and discuss how it can help you too survive everyday life. Which celebrity type do you fall into? Are you a thrill seeker like Kate Moss or an exhibitionist like Jordan? Find out with Celebrity Life Laundry.

Celebrity Life Laundry

Thomas Giddens

Kieran Tranter

In a world of globalised media, Japanese popular culture has become a signifi cant fountainhead for images, narrative, artefacts, and identity. From Pikachu, to instantly identifi able manga memes, to the darkness of adult anime, and the hyper- consumerism of product tie- ins, Japan has bequeathed to a globalised world a rich variety of ways to imagine, communicate, and interrogate tradition and change, the self, and the technological future. Within these foci, questions of law have often not been far from the surface: the crime and justice of Astro Boy; the property and contract of Pokémon; the ecological justice of Nausicaä; Shinto’s focus on order and balance; and the anxieties of origins in J- horror. This volume brings together a range of global scholars to refl ect on and critically engage with the place of law and justice in Japan’s popular cultural legacy. It explores not only the global impact of this legacy, but what the images, games, narratives, and artefacts that comprise it reveal about law, humanity, justice, and authority in the twenty-first century.

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