Synesthesia is the phenomenon where sensual perceptions are joined together as a combined experience. This volume explores the richly complex manifestations of synesthesia and law. It explores how we feel/taste/smell/see/hear law within the synesthetic scope of legal interpretation, legal consciousness and legal culture. The work explores aspects of embodiment, place, and presence that constitutively frame law amidst social, cultural, and historical contexts. Particulars located in the layers of synesthetic legalities semiotically generate a notion of law that challenges and transforms the legal semiotic beyond the visual.

Sarah Marusek is an Associate Professor of Public Law in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo. Her research interests focus on sites of constitutive law, legal geography, and legal semiotics while engaging legal pluralist frameworks of visual jurisprudence. She has published widely on these and related areas.

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Acknowledgments

1. Exploring Layers of Law and the Sensory at the Volcano

[Sarah Marusek]

2. What Legal Rules are Suitable for Protruding Media of Law and Why? Contribution to the Concept of Locality/Non-Locality of Legal Rules

[Michal Dudek]

3. From Waste Management to Recycling: Constructing Mental Health Policy in the Kingdom of Tonga

[Timothy P. Fadgen]

4. What Law Tastes Like: A Free Conjecture on the Palate of Juridicity

[Marcílio Franca and Maria Francisca Carneiro (English Translation by Caio Martino)]

5. How to Dance to the Law: Engaged Embodiment in Hegel's Philosophy of Right

[Christopher Lauer]

6. A Tale of Outsourcing: The Enhanced Presence and Absence of Law through the Senses

[Yue Ang]

7. 'Do Not Touch': Prohibitions on Touch and the Incarcerated Female Body

[Marilyn M. Brown]

8. Deconstruction and Bio-politics: Asymmetrical Visuality, Spacing, Power

[Chris Lloyd]

9. Artistic Flash: Sketching the Courtroom Trial

[Anita Lam]

10. Dependency and Care in Peirce's Training of Reasoning

[Celia Bardwell-Jones]

11. "Warmth" in Justice: (Re)semiotization of "Frozen Embryo" in the Civil Case of the Four Shidu Parents

[Liping Zhang and Xian Zhou]

12. The Copyright of my Sensorimotor Experience

[Kristian Bankov]

13. An Incitement to Rapey Discourse: Blurred Lines and the Erotics of Protest

[Ummni Khan]

14. "The Map is Not the Territory": Thoughts About Synesthesia and Law

[John Brigham]

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