Kamikaze law: on the aesthetics of the legal war on terror / Laurent de Sutter. The aesthetics of convivencia: visualising a mode of living together in Al-Andalus / Raja Sakrani -- Auriculation / Peter Goodrich -- Is Pasteur American? The story of Louis Pasteur (William Dieterle, 1936): from nineteenth-century laboratory to twentieth-century trials - a transnational perspective / Claire Demoulin -- Souvenir, fiction, imagination: the times of fascism in the Conformist / Thibault Guichard -- The law of the father and the order of time: Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter / Christian Delage -- The litigating dead: dead: zombie jurisprudence in contemporary popular culture / William MacNeil -- Form of life: how the law became an image / Emanuele Coccia -- Virtual judges in immigrant detention: the mise-en-scène of no-show justice / Michelle Castańeda -- Comity, Facebook and the (legal) personality of animals / Christopher Hutton -- Moral choices and ethical systems in videogames / Antoine Rocipon -- Reading law: a beginner's guide to the manual of how to read the book of law yet to come / Daniela Gandorfer -- Registers of gay marriage in new media and law / Marco Wan -- Kamikaze law: on the aesthetics of the legal war on terror / Laurent de Sutter.
Summary:
In this volume, 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. Examining the jurisprudence of new visual technologies--from the cinema of the early twentieth century to the social media of our own time--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. Part One tracks the media, the technologies and apparatuses of modern law. It looks specifically at the acoustics of architecture, emblematic texts, films of trials, the prohibition of cameras in courtrooms and the rules of contempt, televised reporting of law, and the multiple fora and chat rooms of Facebook, vblogs, #law and the mobile-optimised web. Part Two examines the jurisprudential questions raised by new visual and virtual reality technologies of the 21st century. Will social media lead to social law? The force of legal remediation? Virtual courts and online judges? Paperless trials? Electronic discovery? All of these developments impact how we conceive of the practice of law.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.