Call For Expressions of Interest
INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF LEGAL LANGUAGE AND
COMMUNICATION
🚨 Call for Interest – Section 26: Criminal Law and Communication in Immersive and Transnational Digital Environments 🚨
Editor: Sou Hee Yang
We invite scholars, legal practitioners, linguists, and
interdisciplinary researchers to express interest in contributing to Section 26
of our upcoming volume, which will explore how legal language and communicative
frameworks are adapting to the complexities of crimes committed in immersive
and transnational digital spaces—including the metaverse, VR platforms, and
decentralized online networks.
This section goes beyond conventional cybercrime. We're
particularly interested in new legal challenges around virtual sexual violence,
identity manipulation, consent violations, and non-physical forms of harm that
occur in avatar-mediated or digitally simulated environments.
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Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
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Linguistic and legal definitions of violence and consent in immersive
interactions
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Comparative criminal law across jurisdictions (UK, South Korea, US, and beyond)
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Virtual groping, stalking, and coercion – how law responds to new forms of
sexual harm
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Legal semiotics – what avatar gestures mean in court
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Jurisdictional friction and the linguistic politics of cross-border prosecution
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Terminological innovation – how laws invent language for emerging crimes
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Discursive representation of digital victims and justice for the “invisible”
harmed
This section foregrounds comparative and cross-cultural
perspectives, legal and linguistic innovation, and the pressing question of how
legal meaning is made in digitally immersive and borderless environments.
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If your work intersects with law, language, digital environments, or virtual
harm, we’d love to hear from you.
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To express interest or request more information, please contact:
Sou Hee Yang
Help us shape the conversation at the frontiers of law,
language, and digital life.
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