Decoding International Law - Semiotics and the Humanities (Hardcover)

Violations of international law and human rights laws are the plague of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. People's inhumanity to people escalates as wars proliferate and respect for human rights and the laws of war diminish. In Decoding International Law: Semiotics and the Humanities, Professor Susan Tiefenbrun analyzes international law as represented artfully in the humanities.
Mass violence and flagrant violations of human rights have a dramatic effect that naturally appeals to writers, film makers, artists, philosophers, historians, and legal scholars who represent these horrors indirectly through various media and in coded language. This reader-friendly book enables us to comprehend and decode international law and human rights laws by interpreting meanings concealed in great works of art, literature, film and the humanities. Here, the author adopts an interdisciplinary method of interpretation based on the science of signs, linguistics, stylistics, and an in-depth analysis of the work's cultural context.
This book unravels the complexities of such controversial issues as terrorism, civil disobedience, women's and children's human rights, and the piracy of intellectual property. It provides in-depth analyses of diverse literary works: Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent and the movie Hotel Rwanda (both representing terrorism); Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail; two documentary films about women and family law in Iran, Divorce Iranian Style and Two Women; Lisa See's Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (women's human rights and human trafficking in China); Uzodinma Iweala's Beasts ofNo Nation (shedding light on child soldiering and trafficking in Africa), and much more.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2010
First published:	April 2010
Authors:	Susan Tiefenbrun (Professor of Law, Director of Center for Global Legal Studies, Director of LL.M. Programs in International Trade and American Legal Studies for Foreign Lawyers)
Dimensions:	242 x 165 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	588
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-538577-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Semiology Books > Law > International law > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-538577-2
Barcode:	9780195385779

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