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What Authorizes The Image? The Visual Economy Of Post-Secular Jurisprudence, Richard Sherwin Jan 2018

What Authorizes The Image? The Visual Economy Of Post-Secular Jurisprudence, Richard Sherwin

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In law’s visual economy our commitment to justice grows out of a renewed encounter with an interior libidinal source whose ongoing collective investment binds us to the nomos in which we live. We experience this corporeal bond in paintings, films, and video images on screens large and small. In the ethically inflected aesthetic of post-secular jurisprudence, justice is to law as beauty is to art. As distant as an abstract expressionist canvas, as close as any neighbor, or indeed any screen on which the neighbor becomes real to us. That is where we behold the source and instantiation of law’s …


Visual Jurisprudence, Richard Sherwin Jan 2013

Visual Jurisprudence, Richard Sherwin

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Lawyers, judges, and jurors face a vast array of visual evidence and visual argument inside the contemporary courtroom. From videos documenting crimes and accidents to computer displays of their digital simulation, increasingly, the search for fact-based justice is becoming an offshoot of visual meaning making. But when law migrates to the screen it lives there as other images do, motivating belief and judgment on the basis of visual delight and unconscious fantasies and desires as well as actualities. Law as image also shares broader cultural anxieties concerning not only the truth of the image, but also the mimetic capacity itself, …


What Screen Do You Have In Mind? Contesting The Visual Context Of Law And Film Studies, Richard K. Sherwin Jan 2009

What Screen Do You Have In Mind? Contesting The Visual Context Of Law And Film Studies, Richard K. Sherwin

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Law on the screen gives rise to a distinct way of doing jurisprudence. In this sense, it is incumbent upon legal scholars to discern with great care the kind of reality and the way of being that cinematic and electronic screens invite us to assume. Jurisprudence theorizes law in accordance with the cultural and cognitive meaning making tools at its disposal: story frames, character types, social scenarios, metaphors, as well as cultural and socially embedded or constructed emotional patterns, among other narratival and purely sensational elements. Law and film studies thus may be viewed as encompassing a larger concern with …


The Progress Of The Law: Hemisphere Trial Link / Antiquity And The Law / New Court Rules / Easing Of Adoptions / Blackout Motorists / Ad Lib Tv Defamation Constitutes Libel-Not Slander / Foreign Aid Program / Law Of The Sea / Mediators Ask Confidential Role Jan 1957

The Progress Of The Law: Hemisphere Trial Link / Antiquity And The Law / New Court Rules / Easing Of Adoptions / Blackout Motorists / Ad Lib Tv Defamation Constitutes Libel-Not Slander / Foreign Aid Program / Law Of The Sea / Mediators Ask Confidential Role

NYLS Law Review

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