Images in law / edited by Anne Wagner and William Pencak.

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TextPublication details: Aldershot Hants England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., 2006.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 318 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780754680505
0754680509

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Images in law.DDC classification:

340/.115 22

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K487.C8 I43 2006eb

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Contents:

Deep structures of empire : A note on imperial machines and bodies -- Intervention and the new imagery of world order -- Key words in Chinese law -- Visual semiotics of court dress in England and Wales : failed or successful vector of professional identity? -- The drama of the courtroom -- Digital visual and multimedia software and the reshaping of legal knowledge -- A Las Menimas for the law -- Legal language in action : raising basic awareness about and understanding of competing legal system in the legal classroom -- Discourses of the ideal and the actual in the courtroom : the conflict for jurors in 'making sense' of general instructions -- Jurors' recorded deliberations : an analysis -- 'Let me see your hands' : the grammar of physical control in police directives -- Images of the Irish family : a 'slightly' constitutional arrangement -- Images of racial discrimination France -- Law's trouble with images : fetishism and seduction from Athens and Jerusalem to Madison Avenue.

Summary: Presenting perspectives on legal theory and practice, this volume examines how visual images of the law influence interpretation and execution of the law in ways not discernible from written texts.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-305) and index.

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Presenting perspectives on legal theory and practice, this volume examines how visual images of the law influence interpretation and execution of the law in ways not discernible from written texts.

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