1. Introduction; 2. Obiter depicta as an element of law; 3. Devising law: a short history of legal emblems; 4. The sovereign likes to hide: visualizing hierarchy; 5. The foolosophy of justice and the enigma of law; 6. The hand of the law and its amputation; 7. Visibilities: persons, things, actions; 8. Conclusion: virtual laws.
This book is the first book to look closely and critically at the history of images of law.
Peter Goodrich is a Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Law and Humanities, Cardozo School of Law, New York. His previous books include Reading the Law (1986), Legal Discourse (1992), Oedipus Lex (1996) and, more recently, Laws of Love (2006) and, with Christian Delage, The Scene of the Mass Crime: History, Film and International Tribunals (2012). He is also co-author and co-producer of the award-winning feature documentary Auf Wiedersehen: Til We Meet Again (Diskin Films, 2011).
'… a thorough work of scholarship … This is a vital thesis that
gestures towards another time and towards inexhaustible movements.
Without fuller appreciation of the emblem tradition, so elegantly
recuperated here, the visual turn in legal scholarship will remain
ill conceived and our appreciation of the possibilities of social
reorganisation and subjectivity will remain static.' Piyel Haldar,
Law and Humanities
'This study is not simply a book about legal emblems, but about the
overall significance of a critical apprehension of the visible for
the law. Dealing with the symbolic dimension as well as the
imaginary representation of legality as part of the judicial
process, Peter Goodrich surpasses well-known discussions about
representational aspects … This book is a veritable treasure chest
for all scholars who set about to unravel the visual regimes of the
law.' Carolin Behrmann, Journal of the Max Planck Institute for
European Legal History
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