Law, video games, virtual realities : playing law / edited by Dale Mitchell, Ashley Pearson, and Timothy D. Peters.

"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 codifie...

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Other Authors: Mitchell, Dale, 1951- (Editor), Pearson, Ashley (Ashley J.) (Editor), Peters, Timothy D. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon [U.K.] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
Series:Tech nomos.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : playing law / Dale Mitchell, Ashley Pearson and Timothy D. Peters
  • Towards a legal ludology : language games, playful magic, and the game of law / Dale Mitchell
  • Invisible walls : facts and freedom in 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
  • 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
  • Gaming at the margins of law or, Niko Bellic's (critical) 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.