Law and New Media - West of Everything

Examines the complex and varied interactions between law and the different visual media produced by changing technologies

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.

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.

Key Features
¿ Includes an international range of contributions from the United States, Europe, the Middle East and China
¿ Presents a firm historical foundation for considering the connections between law and new forms of media
¿ Part One tracks the media, the technologies and apparatuses of modern law, looking 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, #hashtag law, and the mobile optimised web
¿ Part Two examines the jurisprudential questions raised by new visual and virtual reality technologies of the twenty-first century

Christian Delage is Professor at the University of Paris 8 and Director of the Institut d'histoire du temps présent (CNRS/Paris 8).

Peter Goodrich is Professor of Law and Director of Law and Humanities at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York.

Marco Wan is Associate Professor of Law and Honorary Associate Professor of English at the University of Hong Kong.

Cover image: Video still from Stereoscope, 1999 © William Kentridge

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List of contents

List of Figures

1 Introduction: West of Everything
Christian Delage, Peter Goodrich and Marco Wan

Part I: Heading West

2. The Aesthetics of 'Convivencia'. Visualising a Mode of Living Together in Al Andalus
Raja Sakrani

3. Auriculation
Peter Goodrich

4. Pasteur (William Dieterle, 1936): A Transmedia Pioneering Role in Health Imagery and Sanitary Public Policies
Claire Demoulin

5. Souvenir, Fiction, Imaginary. Times of Fascism in The Conformist by Alberto Moravia and Bernardo Bertolucci
Thibault 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 Image
Emanuele Coccia

Part II: New Frontiers of Jurisprudence

9. Virtual Judges in Immigrant Detention: The Mise en Scène of No-show Justice
Michelle Castaneda

10. Facebook and the (Legal) Personality of Animals
Christopher Hutton

11. Moral Choices and Legal Norms in Videogames and Interactive Film
Antoine Rocipon

12. Synesthetic Law. Or, How VR Teaches Us to Perceive Law Differently
Daniela Gandorfer

13. Visual Advocacy: The Case of Same-sex Marriage
Marco Wan

14. Kamikaze Law: On the Aesthetics of the Legal War on Terror
Laurent De Sutter

Index

About the author

Christian Delage is Professor and Director of the Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent at the University of Paris-VIII. He has also taught at the Institut d'Études Politiques (IEP) in Paris and the Cardozo Law School in New York. His film Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing Their Crimes, narrated by Christopher Plummer, was released in 2007 and is now available on DVD. He served as a policy advisor on the filming of the Khmer Rouge trials and produced Cameras in the Courtroom, a documentary about the filming of legal trials.Peter Goodrich is Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law, New York and Visiting Professor in the School of Social Science at NYU Abu Dhabi. He was the founding dean of the Department of Law at Birkbeck, University of London, where he was also the Corporation of London Professor of Law. He has written extensively in legal history and theory, law and literature and semiotics and has authored 12 books. He is the executive editor of the journal Law and Literature (Taylor & Francis), and was the founding editor of Law and Critique (Springer). His recent books include Schreber's Law: Jurisprudence and Judgment in Transition (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and Legal Emblems and the Art of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2013). To this coruscating and lucifugous erudition can be added co-writing and co-producing the award winning documentary Auf Wiedersehen: 'Til we Meet Again (Diskin Films, 2012).Marco Wan is Associate Professor of Law and a Director of the Law and Literary Studies Programme at the University of Hong Kong. He has published widely in law and the humanities, with a particular focus on law and literature and law and visual culture. His first book, Masculinity and the Trials of Modern Fiction (Routledge, 2017), was awarded the Penny Pether Prize by the Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia. He is Managing Editor of Law & Literature (Taylor & Francis).

Summary

This book argues that the periodic ceremonial intrusion into the everyday lives of people across the Ottoman Empire, which the annual royal birthday and accession-day celebrations constituted, had multiple, far-reaching and largely unexplored consequences.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Wan Goodrich, Goodrich Peter, Marco Wan
• Assisted by: Christian Delage (Editor), Peter Goodrich (Editor), Marco Wan (Editor)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781474445825
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-4582-5
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in; Edinburgh Critical Studies in
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law