Full Description
Will social media lead to social law? The force of legal remediation? Virtual courts and online judges? Paperless trials? Electronic discovery? All of these novel legal developments impact how we conceive of the practice of law. Here, international specialists from new and established domains of law, media, film and virtual studies address the emergence of the jurist in the era of digital transmission. From the cinema of the early 20th century to social media, this volume explores the multiple intersections of these visual technologies and the law from the theoretical insight they generate to the nature of law to the impact they have on doctrinal development.
Contents
List of Figures
1 Introduction: West of EverythingChristian Delage, Peter Goodrich and Marco Wan
Part I: Heading West
2. The Aesthetics of 'Convivencia'. Visualising a Mode of Living Together in Al AndalusRaja Sakrani
3. AuriculationPeter Goodrich
4. Pasteur (William Dieterle, 1936): A Transmedia Pioneering Role in Health Imagery and Sanitary Public PoliciesClaire Demoulin
5. Souvenir, Fiction, Imaginary. Times of Fascism in The Conformist by Alberto Moravia and Bernardo BertolucciThibault Guichard
6. The Law of the Father and The Order of Time: Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter Christian Delage
7. The Litigating Dead: Zombie Jurisprudence in The Walking Dead, World War Z and The Rising William MacNeil
8. Lifestyle: How to Become an ImageEmanuele Coccia
Part II: New Frontiers of Jurisprudence
9. Virtual Judges in Immigrant Detention: The Mise en Scène of No-show JusticeMichelle Castaneda
10. Facebook and the (Legal) Personality of AnimalsChristopher Hutton
11. Moral Choices and Legal Norms in Videogames and Interactive FilmAntoine Rocipon
12. Synesthetic Law. Or, How VR Teaches Us to Perceive Law DifferentlyDaniela Gandorfer
13. Visual Advocacy: The Case of Same-sex MarriageMarco Wan
14. Kamikaze Law: On the Aesthetics of the Legal War on TerrorLaurent De Sutter
Index
