Images in law [electronic resource] / edited by Anne Wagner and William Pencak. - Aldershot Hants England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., 2006. - ix, 318 p. ; 24 cm.

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

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.


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