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

• Pubblicazione: Aldershot Hants England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate Pub. Co., 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 p.)
• Disciplina: 340/.115
• Soggetto topico: Culture and law
• Altri autori: WagnerAnne <1968-> PencakWilliam <1951->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-305) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Images in law
• ISBN: 1-315-58784-X; 1-317-11881-2; 1-317-11880-4; 1-281-09679-2; 9786611096793; 0-7546-8050-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821134603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II