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Introduction -- Law's Garden of Forking Paths by Anne Wagner, Tracey Summerfield and Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas -- Part I: The Interpretation and Pertinence of Law in the Global Age -- 1. Refugee Meanings by Ian Duncanson -- 2. Citizens, Immigrants, Anarchists and Other Animals by Annabelle Mooney -- 3. The Dialogistic Nature of Brazil's Arbitration Law 9.307/96 by Celina Frade -- 4. Constitutional 'Communarchy': A Constitution with Chinese Characteristics by Deborah Cao -- 5. The Quest for Certainty in Recent US Constitutional Scholarship: Original Intent and the Practice of Constitutional 'Creativity' by Frederick P Lewis -- 6. Celebrity as Authority in Law by John Brigham and Jill Meyers -- 7. Writing Around the Censor: Gypsies, Thieves, and Rebels in Early Modern Spain by William Pencak -- Part II: Cultural and Symbolic Analyses of the Law in Context -- 8. Subversion in the World of Order: Legal Deconstruction as a Rhetorical Practice by Joanna Jemielniak -- 9. The Substantive Issue and the Rhetoric of the Abortion Debate in Ireland by Sophie Cacciaguidi-Fahy -- 10. Wealth of Terms-Scarcity of Justice? Term Formation in Statutory Definitions by Richard Foley -- 11. Enduring Signs and Obscure Meanings: Contested Coats of Arms in Australian Jurisdictions by Richard Mohr -- 12. Critical Race Reggae: The Sound of a Narrative by Aaron RS Lorenz -- 13. Cromer's Olde England and the Dome's New Britain: Two Same/Different Imageries of the Law of Britain's Empire by Ronnie Lippens -- 14. Law in the Age of Images: The Challenge of Visual Literacy by Christina O Spiesel, Richard K Sherwin, Neal Feigenson.