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Exploring authorship and ownership of plays at the time of William Shakespeare’s First Folio Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Luke McDonagh
In this this article I evaluate how authorship of theatre occurred in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. I explore whether individual playwrights such as William Shakespeare were viewed as autho...
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Beltracchi: Die Kunst der Fälschung (Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery) Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Grischka Petri
Published in Law and Humanities (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Shakespeare and the theatre of early modern law Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-07 Paul Raffield
Taking as my cue the Introduction to the First Folio edition of his plays, I examine Shakespeare's particular interest in English law and juridical procedure. It is likely that his considerable, de...
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Performing a constitution: a history of Magna Carta in Shakespeare’s King John Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Ruth Houghton
Despite its now totemic constitutional status, Magna Carta is not explicitly mentioned in Shakespeare’s history play of King John. King John has been interrogated by literary scholars for reference...
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Programming utopia: artificial intelligence, judgement, and the prospect of jurisgenesis Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Bryan M. Ellrod
There has been much handwringing about artificial intelligence’s application to law. Much of it regards AI’s potential incompatibility with restrictions on the unauthorized interpretation of law. H...
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Roman law and Latin literature Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Ian Ward
Published in Law and Humanities (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The corporation in the nineteenth-century American imagination Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Matteo Nicolini
Published in Law and Humanities (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Love and marriage in the age of Jane Austen Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Rebecca Probert
Published in Law and Humanities (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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A Roman face on an English body: the typography of Plowden’s Commentaries Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Thomas Giddens
This paper examines the typographic form of Plowden’s Commentaries within its legal, printing, and technological histories, demonstrating that its typographic appearance embeds complex tensions ove...
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Shakespeare and Voltaire: both legally vulnerable and successful Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Silvia Ferreri
Copyright protection was very limited in the past. Both Shakespeare – and, later, Voltaire – suffered from piracy of their ideas. If their respective legal systems were insufficient to provide prot...
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George Takei’s Allegiance: WWII Japanese American incarceration as a cautionary tale Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Lindsey N. Kingston
The musical Allegiance was inspired by the childhood of actor-activist George Takei, a Japanese American whose family was incarcerated by the United States government in ‘war relocation camps’ duri...
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Mr Bates vs The Post Office Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Kajsa E. Dinesson
Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 18, No. 1, 2024)
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Shakespeare’s testament: England in 1623 Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Ian Ward
The year 1623 is not one which tends to set racing the historical pulse. Indeed, if it were not for the publication of the First Folio it would be barely remembered at all. But if we look a little ...
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‘The tribunes of the people, the tongues o’ the common mouth’: parliamentarians as representatives when scrutinizing laws Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Sean Mulcahy, Kate Seear
Shakespeare’s First Folio included publication of Coriolanus, a play that is said to be inflected by political events at the time of its writing and still so by its publication during a period the ...
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Challenging the Beckett canon: how Godot is a Woman interrogates the gender biases of authorial control in copyright Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Catherine Pocock
Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 18, No. 1, 2024)
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Caliban as legal subject: The Tempest and Renaissance juridical thought Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Wojciech Engelking
In this paper the author reads the figure of Shakespeare’s Caliban from The Tempest through the lens of the legal dispute on how the inhabitants of lands colonized by European countries are legal s...
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The autobiographical constitution Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Jacques de Ville
The idea that the modern constitution can be understood as the autobiography of a people is becoming a frequently invoked metaphor. Autobiography is commonly understood as a narrative of an individ...
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Trying to be heard – the voices of first nation People in Herzog’s Where the Green Ants Dream Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Kim D. Weinert
This article examines how speech and speech acts are central to Othering First Nations people in Australia. Werner Herzog’s film, Where the Green Ants Dream (1984), centres around a fictional Dream...
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Sensing justice through contemporary Spanish cinema: aesthetics, politics, law Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Javier Krauel
Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 18, No. 1, 2024)
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Law and Humanities issue 17.2. Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 David Gurnham
Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 17, No. 2, 2023)
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The crime control of true crime best sellers Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Sara M. Walsh
In criminology, social and legal eras are often referred to as dominated by either due process or crime control narratives. In general, crime control narratives focus on the need for tough-on-crime...
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I am the law: how Judge Dredd predicted our future Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Zoe L. Tongue
Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 18, No. 1, 2024)
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Law as performance: theatricality, spectatorship, and the making of law in ancient, medieval, and early modern Europe Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Alex Feldman
Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 17, No. 2, 2023)
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Changing presents, shifting past(s): the diverse interests of transitional justice and cultural heritage in the case of the Iranian revolution Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Mirosław Michał Sadowski DCL, Seyed Mohammad Amin Zavarei
Cultural heritage and transitional justice both seem to be established terms with fixed connotations: the former of universally valued and appreciated cultural objects and the latter of processes r...
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The untold story of the first Italian-Turinese female lawyer: Netflix’s The Law According to Lidia Poet Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-06 Susanna Menis
The Netflix nineteenth-century period drama The Law According to Lidia Poet presents the adventures of a young Italian law graduate in her pursuit of solving murder cases. Lidia Poet is not a ficti...
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Law and emotions in The Split Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Anja Louis, Andrea Subryan, Chalen Westaby
The representation of female lawyers in film and television has long been indicative of wider issues of patriarchal crisis. Seminal works by Cynthia Lucia (Framing Female Lawyers, 2005) and Orit Ka...
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Anarchism: an art of living without law Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Christos Marneros
Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 17, No. 2, 2023)
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Joseph Bouet in the Durham criminal court (c.1825–1856): picturing nineteenth century courtroom actors. Part 2: three case studies Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Helen Rutherford, Clare Sandford-Couch
Between c.1825–1856, a French-born artist, Joseph Bouet, made approximately sixty pencil sketches in the criminal courtroom at Durham, of legal actors including judges, lawyers, and defendants. Our...
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Joseph Bouet in the Durham criminal court (c.1825–1856): picturing nineteenth century courtroom actors. Part 1: lines of enquiry Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Helen Rutherford, Clare Sandford-Couch
Between c.1825–1856, a French-born artist, Joseph Bouet, made approximately sixty pencil sketches of legal actors in the courtroom at Durham; including images of judges, lawyers, and defendants. Le...
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Enlightened remembering and the paradox of forgetting: from Dante to data privacy Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Patrick O’Callaghan
This paper adopts a law and humanities-based methodology to critique the binary distinction between remembering and forgetting that often features in law and policy. Using the right to be forgotten...
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From metaphor to materiality: grounding intersectional legal thought Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Cecilia Gebruers
When I first decided to investigate an intersectional approach to frame forces operating in cases of indigenous women affected by land conflicts, I had not envisioned that the metaphorical aspect w...
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Editorial Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Gary Watt
Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 17, No. 1, 2023)
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Dr Ruth Herz (1943–2023) an appreciation Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Law and Humanities
Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 17, No. 1, 2023)
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Almodóvar’s High Heels revisited: a scandalous or thought-provoking portrayal of a judge? Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Ruth Herz
ABSTRACT Taking as its focus the 1991 movie High Heels by Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar, this article argues that the multi-layered narrative style of Almodóvar's films make them especially suited to the examination of present-day culture and society. High Heels is the story of a troubled mother–daughter relationship compounded with the subplot of a judge who is entrusted with the investigation
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From law and literature to legality and affect Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Peter Goodrich
Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 17, No. 1, 2023)
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Copyrighting God: Ownership of the Sacred in American Religion; Censorship and the Representation of the Sacred in Nineteenth-Century England Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Elena Cooper
Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 17, No. 1, 2023)
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Introduction: ‘public information comics’ Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Christopher Murray, Golnar Nabizadeh
ABSTRACT This symposium article brings together distinguished scholars from the field of criminology, graphic arts, creative industries and social policy, and English to reflect on a suite of ‘educational’ or ‘public information’ comics created by the Scottish Centre for Comics Studies (SCCS), based at the University of Dundee. There are now 20-plus titles available to the public for free download
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Analysing law in opera Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Stefan Machura, Olga Litvinova, John Cunningham
ABSTRACT In opera, the drama typically unfolds with transgressions against the law or social norms. Legal conflict and crime are important devices used to hold audience interest. Opera embodies a rich combination of acting and song, orchestral music, stage architecture, and a plethora of other dramaturgical devices. The emotional connotations of lawbreaking are laid bare like in no other form of art
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Postcolonial temporality of J. M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986) Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Benjamin Goh
ABSTRACT This article considers the temporality of J. M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986) for what it suggests about the demands of authorship and copyright in the postcolonial present. By close reading the novel alongside some salient commentaries and intertexts, we attend to the interval between the postcolonial novel and its early modern predecessor Robinson Crusoe (1719), and suggest how the works could be
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Public information comics and archival memories Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Ian Horton
ABSTRACT This paper will examine the self-styled public information comics Chronicle: The Archive and Museum Anthology and Archives and Memory, both published by the Scottish Centre for Comics Studies (SCCS) in 2018. The comics in question deal with notions of the archival in very different ways both conceptually and stylistically. The discussion will highlight the legal and social justice issues these
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Closure, trauma and the graphical imagination Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Angus Nurse
ABSTRACT Notions of law and order, protecting the vulnerable and seeking vengeance arguably dominate popular comic book narratives, reflecting societal concerns about the suffering engendered by crime, deviance and acts of terrorism. Contemporary society faces threats relating to rising crime, societal alienation and the globalized nature of terrorism that have been extensively considered, examined
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The complexities of ‘Closure’ Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Christopher Pizzino
ABSTRACT In both content and form, the comic ‘Closure’, written by Laura Findlay and illustrated by Zuzanna Dominiak, advances a notably complex view of the subject of trauma, and of the way comics can best portray this subject. Far from offering straightforward, easily summarized data on trauma, the creators enact a conflict between word and image, and between writer and illustrator, to explain how
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Research into practice in the affective information comic Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Paul Long
ABSTRACT The ‘archival turn’ describes the way in which political, memorial, legal, and social issues have been explored by archive professionals and amateurs, as well as theorists across the humanities, including legal scholars and indeed, creative artists. Together, their work has sought to explore the archive reflexively, attending to the interests that come to bear upon its formation and role determining
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Truth or doubt: questioning legal outcomes in true-crime documentaries Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Diana Rickard
ABSTRACT Within the last decade, true crime stories have increasingly concerned cases of possible wrongful conviction. Many of these podcasts and documentary series about wrongful conviction look at specific and known factors that contribute to the bad outcomes, and, in different ways, champion the defendants whose cases they explore. This paper looks beyond the contributing factors of wrongful conviction
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Figuring out justice in dark times: on law, history, and the visual Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Igor Stramignoni
ABSTRACT What happens when we approach certain objects heuristically as images? How is one to orient oneself through such images? Might those images challenge our existing knowledge of the history of modernisation and written rationalisation of law after the Middle Ages? In this essay, I begin with certain early modern European artworks - paintings, engravings, woodcuts, and drawings - as well as some
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AnteEditorial: a personal reflection on law and humanities Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Gary Watt, David Gurnham
Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 16, No. 2, 2022)
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Practice and/or process? (In)disciplining law and art Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Lucy Finchett-Maddock, Jack Ky Tan
Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 16, No. 2, 2022)
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The researcher as unreliable narrator: writing sociological crime fiction as a research method Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Phil Crockett Thomas
ABSTRACT Whilst works of art, including fiction, are well established as legitimate objects of sociological analysis, and the narratives crafted by the subjects of social research are widely understood to be meaningful, the use of creative writing as a methodology is still quite novel within law and the social sciences. In this article, I seek to demonstrate how the practice and process of creating
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Clamouring for legal protection: what the great books teach us about people fleeing from persecution Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-09-21 David Gurnham
Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 16, No. 2, 2022)
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Slow-mo: the violent art of Oscar Murillo Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
ABSTRACT This essay explores Afro-Colombian artist Oscar Murillo’s practice and process as an instance of ‘fantastic critique’. Animated by an ongoing exchange between the artist and the author about art & human rights, trade and place, protest and action, including the 2021 General strike in Colombia, it aims to situate emerging notions of justice in the intersection between artistic practices and
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Imagination through repetition: on ways of securing legitimacy in judicial and artistic practice Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Aleksandra Wawrzyszczuk, Tom Hume
ABSTRACT Judicial legitimacy is an unexpectedly fragile convention in common law, frayed by the persistent tension between loyalty to precedent and sensitivity to the fluctuating socio-political values of the society. The nature of artistic legitimacy is intuitively more internal as raw imagination is channelled in order to create a purposeful work of art. Repetition, which can be an example of rebellious
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Methodologies of law as performance Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Sean Mulcahy
ABSTRACT Despite the growth in scholarship in the broad field of law as performance, there is little critical attention paid to methodologies of research. With attention to the growing research in this field, this paper shall consider methodological approaches to law as performance. This paper considers how traditional qualitative methodologies, such as ethnographic observations, case studies and comparative
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How bodies challenge disciplinary binaries: re-examining law and the arts inside the Marikana Commission of Inquiry Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Robyn Gill-Leslie
ABSTRACT The field of transitional justice exemplifies the ‘law and … ’ approach to interdisciplinarity, in the way it has welcomed the arts as a critical counterpoint to legal form. This article challenges conventional notions of interdisciplinarity in this field, claiming that the maintenance of rigid disciplinary boundaries between the law and the arts results in pigeon-holing creativity as a critical
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Editorial Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Gary Watt, David Gurnham
Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2022)
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Human Rights and Poetry in a Global Context Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Rióna Ní Fhrighil, Anne Karhio
Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2022)
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Lord Atkin, the snail and the foreigner: loving the neighbour and oppressing the alien Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Chris Armitage
ABSTRACT In Donoghue v Stevenson, Lord Atkin in the majority perceived the Christian principle of loving one’s neighbour to require a duty of reasonable care to the neighbour, who was [a person who is] ‘so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called in question’
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Women in the Medieval Common Law c. 1200-1500 Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Rebecca Mason
Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2022)
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The Play of Law in Modern British Theatre Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Matteo Nicolini
Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2022)
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The poetry of rights Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Charilaos Nikolaidis
ABSTRACT Human rights are not simply rights, they are also quintessentially human; and the human experience is filled with emotion. This essay argues that human rights can be understood as emanating from emotions that we are perceived to share. Art in general and poetry in particular can provide a great service in helping us explore and bring these emotions to the fore, thereby reinforcing the distinctively
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Affective aesthetics and the visual culture of the high courts Law and Humanities (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Swastee Ranjan
ABSTRACT In ‘From the Colonial to the Contemporary – Images, Iconography, Memories and Performance of Law in India's High Court’, Rahela Khorakiwala, explores the role of visual culture of the High Courts of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras. These court spaces are sites from where law exercises its power. Khorakiwala's strength lies in presenting a rich ethnographic account of this visual culture which