Editors

Sarah Marusek is Professor of Public Law in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai‘i Hilo. Her research examines how law happens in everyday life through the fields of visual jurisprudence, legal semiotics, legal landscapes/aesthetics, and the constitutive approach to law and society. She has written three books, Law, Space and the Vehicular Environment (Routledge, 2022), Law and the Kinetic Environment: Regulating Dynamic Landscapes (Routledge, 2021), and Politics of Parking: Rights, Identity and Property (Routledge, 2016), edited several volumes, including Flags, Color, and the Legal Narrative: Public Memory, Identity, and Critique (Springer 2021) with Anne Wagner, and authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles. She serves as co-editor of the Law and Visual Jurisprudence Book Series (Springer), Associate Editor for International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, and Vice President for the International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law. She has held visiting positions at public universities in Sweden, Italy, and Australia (Canberra and Brisbane) and conducted grant-funded research in Iceland, California, Oregon, and locally on Hawai‘i Island. Professor Marusek has taught at the University of Hawai‘i Hilo since 2009, where she is a recipient of the student-nominated, faculty-awarded University of Hawai‘i Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and teaches courses in jurisprudence, public law, and legal geography. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7589-9503.

Anne Wagner (Ph.D. and Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in Private Law) is Research Associate Professor at Lille University, ULR 4487-CRDP-Centre de Recherche Droits et Perspectives du Droit (France). Her main research lies in visual jurisprudence, legal semiotics, visual studies, language and law, legal culture and heritage, legal translation, legal terminology, law and the Humanities, and legal discourse studies. She is a recipient of the National Research Award (Rank A) for her research career. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (Springer), President of the International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law, Series Co-Editor of Law, Language and Communication (Routledge), and Series Co-Editor of Law and Visual Jurisprudence (Springer). She was invited as Visiting Research Fellow at Örebro University (Sweden), China University of Political Science and Law, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Zhejiang Police College, City University of Hong Kong. She delivered lectures in Italy, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, Germany, Spain, Finland, UK, Portugal, Estonia, China, Hong Kong, Brazil, Israel, Australia, and USA. She is the author of La Langue de la Common Law (L’Harmattan 2002).  She co-edited many reference books, including Prospects of Legal Semiotics (Springer 2010); Law, Culture and Visual Studies (Springer 2013); The Ashgate Handbook on Legal Translation (Ashgate 2014); and Flags, Identity, Memory: Critiquing the Narrative Through Color (2022, Springer, Winner of the 2021 Gherardi Davis Prize of the Flag Research Center). https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6362-9023.