1st Edition
Law, Video Games, Virtual Realities Playing Law
1. Introduction: Playing Law
Dale Mitchell, Ashley Pearson and Timothy D. Peters
Part I: Code as Law, Law as Play
2. Towards a Legal Ludology: Language Games, Playful Magic, and the Game of Law
Dale Mitchell
3. Invisible Walls: Facts and Freedom in Coded Space
James C. Fisher
4. Emergent Governance from Polycentric Order in Virtual Reality Social Spaces
Anne Hobson
5. Emergent Systems: Virtuality, Legality, Formality
Daniel Hourigan
6. Decoding Legal (Un)certainty in Doki Doki Literature Club!
Ashley Pearson
Part II: Worldbuilding and Subject Formation
7. Playing With Borders: Using Video Games to Bring Emotion into the Law Classroom
Jean Ketterling
8. One More Turn: The Gamic Afterlives of Johnson v M'Intosh and Digital Settler Colonialism in Sid Meier's Civilization VI
S. Thomas Keynes
9. Playing the World Picture: Sid Meier's Civilization and the Law of Abstraction
Kieran Tranter
10. A Minor Jurisprudence of Play: Becoming Jurisprudents Through Play in the Majora's Mask
Joshua D.M. Shaw
Part III: Sites of Law and Jurisprudence
11. Gaming at the Margins of Law or, Niko Bellic's (Critical) Theory of Justice
Luis Gómez Romero
12. Law Among Chaos: An Anti-Schmittian Reading of Skyrim
Anna Lukina and Shane Finn
13. Grand Theft Neoliberalism
James Gilchrist Stewart
14. Terra Nulllius: Claiming Land on Civilization's Empty Earth
Conor Leggott
15. Game Over: On Emptying the Public Square
Desmond Manderson
Biography
Dale Mitchell is a Lecturer in Law at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.
Ashley Pearson is a Lecturer in Law at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.
Timothy D. Peters is Associate Professor of Law at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.
