Music is a space of possibilities, a realm of cross-cultural events where interpretation is deeply rooted in history and societal evolution. The main complexity is to analyze the coded meaning and view how the same signs, notions and concepts are appropriated, translated, rehistorized and read anew in songs, be they pop songs or national anthems.

Argument 

Music is a space of possibilities, a realm of cross-cultural events where interpretation is deeply rooted in history and societal evolution. The main complexity is to analyze the coded meaning and view how the same signs, notions and concepts are appropriated, translated, rehistorized and read anew in songs, be they pop songs or national anthems.

Main topics 

This special issue will explore the richly complex manifestations of ‘Music, Cultural Heritage and Law’ in the following ways:

- How do we stimulate our senses with music?

- How do we combine music with national identity and law?

- Is music combined with other sign systems?

- How de we ‘hear’ music, national identity and law?

- What is the creatively approach perception of Music, National Identity and Law? 

The International Journal for the Semiotics of Law/Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique invites further discussion into these related questions and welcomes a plurality of approaches, including those of legal studies, philosophy, music, social sciences, linguistics, history, cultural studies and the humanities.

Submission guidelines 

All paper abstracts of 300 words (max) can be submitted

by December 2016

to Anne Wagner (Guest Editor) with decisions made by February 2017. Full papers could be written in English or French (abstract and keywords must be in English) and should not exceed 15,000 words.

Working languages: English and French 

The Special Issue is expected to be published in 2017-2018.

Editorial Board

• Bruce Arrigo, University of North Carolina, USA
• Kristian Bankov, Southeast European Center for Semiotic Studies,New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria 
• Malik Bozzo-Rey, Université Catholique de Lille, France
• Colette R. Brunschwig, University of Zurich, Legal Visualization Unit, Switzerland
• Le Cheng, Zhejiang University & China University of Political Science and Law, China
• Christine Corcos, Louisiana State University Law Center & Louisiana State University, USA
• Renee A. Cramer, Drake University, USA
• Kirsty Duncanson, La Trobe University, School of Social Sciences, Australia
• Neal Feigenson, Quinnipiac University School of Law, USA
• Muhammad  Gamal, University of Canberra, Australia
• Maurizio Gotti, University of Bergamo, Italy
• Judith Grbich, Socio-Legal Research Centre, Griffith Law School, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Philippe Greciano, Université de Grenoble, France
• Jack B. Hamlin, National University, La Jolla, California, USA
• Ari Hirvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Ewoud Hondius, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Christopher Hutton, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
• Joanna Jemielniak, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Stephan Kirste, University of Salzburg, Austria
• Miklós Könczöl, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary
• Sandy Lamalle, Faculty of Law, University of Montreal, Canada
• Peter Manning, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
• Nancy Marder, Chicago-Kent College of Law, USA
• Andrei Marmor, University of Southern California, USA
• Claudius Messner, Faculty of Law, Lecce University, Italy
• Annabelle Mooney, Roehampton University, UK
• William M. O'Barr, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
• Olivier Moréteau, Louisiana State University, USA
• Enrico Pattaro, Law Faculty, Cirsfid, University of Bologna, Italy
• Jiri Priban,Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University, UK
• Kirsten Wølch Rasmussen, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Monika Rathert, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany
• Hanneke van Schooten, Tilburg University, The Netherlands 
• Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne, Griffith Law School, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Jessica Silbey, Suffolk University Law School, Boston, USA
• Stephen Skinner, School of Law, University of Exeter, UK
• Marty Slaughter, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
• Christina Spiesel, Yale Law School, USA 
• Björn Thorsteinsson, Institute of Philosophy, University of Iceland, Iceland
• Vadim Verenich, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tartu, Estonia 
• Véronique Voruz, School of Law, University of Leicester, UK 
• Willem J. Witteveen, Tilburg University School of Law, The Netherlands 
• Matthew Wai Lung Yeung, The University of Hong Kong, China