Decoding international law : semiotics and the humanities / Susan Tiefenbrun.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Legal semiotics -- A semiotic approach to a legal definition of terrorism -- State-sponsored terrorism, the laws of war, and the role of storytelling as a self-help remedy : law, literature, and semiotics -- Deconstructing Civil disobedience : a semiotic definition -- Semiotics and Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham jail -- On civil disobedience, jurisprudence, feminism, and the law in the Antigones of Sophocles and Anouilh -- The semiotics of women's human rights in Iran -- Gendercide and the cultural context of sex trafficking in China -- The culture of violence : child soldiers, slavery, and the trafficking of children -- The Japanese culture, copyright infringement, defamation, and sex trafficking : a study of the fictional life of a geisha -- The impact of culture on the semiotics of treaty interpretation : how pirates read and misread the Berne convention.