Images in law
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Images in law
Ashgate, c2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-305) and index
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Description
What does 'the law' look like? While numerous attempts have been made to examine law and legal action in terms of its language, little has yet been written that considers how visual images of the law influence its interpretation and execution in ways not discernible from written texts. This groundbreaking collection focuses on images in law, featuring contributions that show and discuss the perception of the legal universe on a theoretical basis or when dealing with visual semiotics (dress, ceremony, technology, etc.). It also examines 'language in action', analyzing jury instructions, police directives, and how imagery is used in conjunction with contentious social and political issues within a country, such as the image of family in Ireland or the image of racism in France.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Introduction, William Pencak and Anne Wagner. Part 1 Images of Law: Deep structures of Empire: a note on imperial machines and bodies, Ronnie Lippens
- Intervention and the new imagery of World Order, Wouter G. Werner
- Key words in Chinese law, Deborah Cao
- Visual semiotics of court dress in England and Wales: failed or successful vector of professional identity?, Shaeda Isani
- The drama of the courtroom, Annabelle Mooney
- Digital visual and multimedia software and the reshaping of legal knowledge, Neal Feigenson
- A Las Meninas for the law, Christina Spiesel. Part 2 Legal Language in Action: Legal language in action: raising basic awareness about and understanding of competing legal systems in the legal classroom, Nicola M. Langton
- Discourses of the ideal and the actual in the courtroom: the conflict for jurors in 'making sense' of general instructions, Philip Gaines
- Jurors' recorded deliberations: an analysis, Paul Robertshaw
- 'Let me see your hands': the grammar of physical control in police directives, Philip C. H. Shon
- Images of the Irish family: a 'slightly' constitutional arrangement, Sophie Cacciaguidi-Fahy
- Images of racial discrimination in France, Anne Wagner
- Law's trouble with images: fetishism and seduction from Athens and Jerusalem to Madison Avenue, Robert A Yelle. Bibliography
- Index.
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