Call For Interest: Empowering the Environmental Consumer: Flexibility & Harmonization in Global Legal Communication

 

Call for Interest – Section 14: Empowering the Environmental Consumer

I’m pleased to share the call for contributions to Section 14 – Empowering the Environmental Consumer: Flexibility & Harmonization in Global Legal Communication, part of the forthcoming International Handbook of Legal Language and Communication: From Text to Semiotics (Springer).

This section explores how harmonized yet adaptable consumer standards—such as energy labels, lifecycle disclosures, and repairability indices—can promote sustainability, prevent greenwashing, and empower consumers worldwide.

📝 We invite proposals that bridge law, linguistics, environmental science, and communication studies.

For more details, please see the attached call or visit:
🔗 https://meteor.springer.com/ihllc

Contact: Aurélien Fortunato – aurelien.fortunato@univ-lille.fr

 

Call For Expressions of Interest: International Handbook of Legal Language and Communication: From Text to Semiotics; Section 3: Justice in the Media Age-- Law, Communication, and Public Perception

Call For Expressions of Interest

International Handbook of Legal Language and Communication (IHLLC): From Text to Semiotics
Editor-in-Chief: Anne Wagner
Publisher: Springer

Section 3: Justice in the Media Age — Law, Communication, and Public Perception

Section Editors: Jerome Tessuto & Vijay Kumar Bhatia
Contact: Tessuto Jerome (t.jerome@libero.it) & Vijay Kumar Bhatia (vjkbhatia1@gmail.com)

We invite proposals for chapters for Section 3 of the IHLLC, which examines the evolving relationship between media, digital communication, and the legal system—and how these shape public perceptions of justice, cultural identity, and collective memory. We welcome contributions that bridge law, linguistics, communication, media studies, and semiotics.

This section explores:

• How traditional media (press, TV, radio) construct legal narratives and influence trust in institutions.
• The role of social and digital platforms (e.g., X/Twitter, Facebook, YouTube) in real-time legal discourse, advocacy, and mobilization—as well as the risks of misinformation and prejudgment.
• The emergence of digital evidence, its authenticity and admissibility, and the impact of virtual courtrooms on procedure and participation.
• Media’s role in collective memory, reform, and accountability, including the responsibilities of tech companies and regulators in moderating harmful content while safeguarding free expression.

Suggested Themes (non-exhaustive)

• Media trials, open justice, and the right to a fair trial
• Framing of courts, judges, and litigants in legacy media
• Social media activism, hashtag movements, and legal reform
• Disinformation, prejudicial publicity, and contempt risks
• Digital evidence: capture, authenticity, admissibility, and fact-finding
• Virtual hearings, remote justice, and access to justice
• Platform governance, content moderation, and intermediary liability
• Online hate speech, defamation, harassment, and remedies
• Investigative journalism, watchdog roles, and legal accountability
• Collective memory, cultural identity, and legal storytelling
• Comparative and cross-jurisdictional analyses
• Methods: discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, multimodal/semiotic analysis

Submission Guidelines

Please email your Expression of Interest (EOI) to Tessuto Jerome (t.jerome@libero.it) and Vijay Kumar Bhatia (vjkbhatia1@gmail.com) including:

• Tentative chapter title (subject to revision)
• Author name(s)
• Institutional affiliation(s)
• Country
• Short abstract

Chapters should be substantial, literature-based, and accessible in tone, engaging the handbook’s semiotic perspective on law and communication. Revisions are possible through the production process.

Timeline: Deadlines for full chapters are flexible (typically 6–12 months after acceptance, with extensions possible).

All information, including author guidelines, templates, and Q&A, is available on the IHLLC project website:
👉 https://meteor.springer.com/project/dashboard.jsf?id=1949&tab=About&mode=ReadPage&entity=15466

Call For Interest, International Handbook of Legal Language and Communication: From Text to Semiotics, Section 52: Digital Transition of Contemporary Societies and Legal Adaptation

From Anne Wagner, Research Associate Professor, Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale (CGU Calais)

Call for Interests: Section 52 — Digital Transition of Contemporary Societies and Legal Adaptation

 

 

INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF LEGAL LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION: From Text to Semiotics.

 

https://meteor.springer.com/ihllc

 

 

Section Editors: Le Cheng & Ming Hu

 

We invite scholars and practitioners to express their interest in contributing to Section 52: Digital Transition of Contemporary Societies and Legal Adaptation, edited by Le Cheng (chengle163@hotmail.com) and Ming Hu (hm606@zju.edu.cn). This section is part of an expansive Handbook designed as an encyclopedia with nearly 1,000 chapters. Each entry goes beyond a standard encyclopedic summary to offer a substantive and reflective contribution, grounded in existing literature but shaped by the author’s unique research perspective.

 

This section investigates how digital transformation is reshaping contemporary legal systems. It considers how the transition toward digital governance, online commerce, and AI-driven technologies challenges traditional legal structures. By focusing on issues such as digital contracts, e-governance, and automation in the legal field, this section highlights the need for laws that are adaptable to the speed of digital innovation and the societal shift toward a fully integrated digital landscape.

 

Potential topics include:

 

Digital Governance and Law: Exploration of e-government initiatives and the digitization of public services, focusing on the legal frameworks that support digital administration.

Automation in Legal Practice: Impact of AI and digital tools on legal procedures, contracts, and decision-making, including the ethical and regulatory challenges posed by automation.

Digital Contracts and Transactions: The transition from traditional to digital contracts, addressing issues of enforceability, consent, and cross-border legal challenges in e-commerce.

Societal Shifts in Digital Law: The evolving legal landscape as societies transition toward digital living, with a focus on emerging rights, privacy, and security concerns.

Contributions should present established knowledge clearly and accessibly, ideally with a personal angle and an original analytical lens, while maintaining scholarly rigor. The Handbook aims to serve both newcomers and experienced readers alike.

 

If you are interested in contributing to this section, please reach out directly to the section editors by 15 August 2025:

Le Cheng – chengle163@hotmail.com

Ming Hu – hm606@zju.edu.cn

 

We look forward to your engagement in this important and timely conversation.

 

Call For Expressions of Interest: International Handbook of Legal Language and Communication, Section 26: Criminal Law and Communication in Immersive and Transnational Digital Environments

 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.

 

https://meteor.springer.com/ihllc

 

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

 

🔹 Linguistic and legal definitions of violence and consent in immersive interactions

🔹 Comparative criminal law across jurisdictions (UK, South Korea, US, and beyond)

🔹 Virtual groping, stalking, and coercion – how law responds to new forms of sexual harm

🔹 Legal semiotics – what avatar gestures mean in court

🔹 Jurisdictional friction and the linguistic politics of cross-border prosecution

🔹 Terminological innovation – how laws invent language for emerging crimes

🔹 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.

 

📢 If your work intersects with law, language, digital environments, or virtual harm, we’d love to hear from you.

 

📩 To express interest or request more information, please contact: 

Sou Hee Yang

 

 ssophiey@toki.waseda.jp

 

Help us shape the conversation at the frontiers of law, language, and digital life.

Feel free to share widely across your networks! 🌐 #DigitalLaw #VirtualHarm #LegalSemiotics #MetaverseJustice #CriminalLaw #LegalLinguistics

 

Call For Expressions of Interest: International Handbook of Legal Language and Communication, Section 12: Constitutionality, Normativity, and the Limits of Law

 Call For Expressions of Interest

INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF LEGAL LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION - SPRINGER

 

https://meteor.springer.com/ihllc

 

📣 Call for Interests – Contribute to the International Handbook of Legal Language and Communication

 

🔍 Section 12: Constitutionality, Normativity, and the Limits of Law

📘 Editors: Ana Margarida Simões Gaudêncio & José Manuel Aroso Linhares

 

We are currently seeking expressions of interest for contributions to Section 12 of the International Handbook of Legal Language and Communication. This section invites critical engagement with the boundaries, authority, and evolving semiotics of law in the face of global challenges and shifting normative landscapes.

 

This section explores:

⚖️ How constitutional and normative frameworks define (and redefine) the authority of law

🌐 How global emergencies, digital governance, and environmental crises test the limits of legal systems

🧭 How legal autonomy, inter-semiotic practices, and normative conflicts shape law’s practical and theoretical horizon

 

Key themes include:

 

The Semiotics of Constitutional Authority

Normative Clashes in Contemporary Governance

Landmark Cases Testing Legal Boundaries

Global Crises and Emerging Constitutional Norms

Juridical Autonomy and the Limits of Law

The Role of Intersemioticity in Legal Discourse

The Counterpoint between Juridicity and Constitutionality

Rethinking Instrumentalism and Conventionalism in Legal Reasoning

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a landmark international volume and to engage with foundational questions concerning the identity and limits of law in an increasingly plural, contested, and interconnected world.

 

✉️ Interested in contributing?

We welcome abstracts, ideas, or initial proposals. Please get in touch with us via email at jmarolinh@gmail.com & anagaude@fd.uc.pt

 

Let’s rethink the frontiers of legal meaning and authority together.