Law and Aesthetics

Law and Aesthetics
Author: Adam Gearey
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2001-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1841132438

This book takes as its starting point Shelley's assertion that poets are legislators and then tracks this aesthetic.

Law and Art

Law and Art
Author: Oren Ben-Dor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2012-03-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 113671975X

The contributions to Law and Art address the interaction between law, justice, the ethical and the aesthetic.

Law and the Image

Law and the Image
Author: Costas Douzinas
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1999-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780226569536

Discussing the diverse relationships between law and the artistic image, this book includes coverage of the history of the relationship between art and law, and the ways in which the visual is made subject to the force of the law.

On Comics and Legal Aesthetics

On Comics and Legal Aesthetics
Author: Thomas Giddens
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1315310112

What are the implications of comics for law? Tackling this question, On Comics and Legal Aesthetics explores the epistemological dimensions of comics and the way this once-maligned medium can help think about – and reshape – the form of law. Traversing comics, critical, and cultural legal studies, it seeks to enrich the theorisation of comics with a critical aesthetics that expands its value and significance for law, as well as knowledge more generally. It argues that comics’ multimodality – its hybrid structure, which represents a meeting point of text, image, reason, and aesthetics – opens understanding of the limits of law’s rational texts by shifting between multiple frames and modes of presentation. Comics thereby exposes the way all forms of knowledge are shaped out of an unstructured universe, becoming a mask over this chaotic ‘beyond’. This mask of knowing remains haunted – by that which it can never fully capture or represent. Comics thus models knowledge as an infinity of nested frames haunted by the chaos without structure. In such a model, the multiple aspects of law become one region of a vast and bottomless cascade of perspectives – an infinite multiframe that extends far beyond the traditional confines of the comics page, rendering law boundless.

The Aesthetics of International Law

The Aesthetics of International Law
Author: Edward M. Morgan
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0802092519

In The Aesthetics of International Law, Ed Morgan engages in a literary parsing of international legal texts. In order to demonstrate how these types of legal narratives are imbued with modernist aesthetics, Morgan juxtaposes international legal documents and modern (as well as some immediately pre- and post-modern) literary texts.

The Art of Environmental Law

The Art of Environmental Law
Author: Benjamin J Richardson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2019-12-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509924612

Environmental law has aesthetic dimensions. Aesthetic values have shaped the making of environmental law, and in turn such law governs many of our nature-based sensory experiences. Aesthetics is also integral to understanding the very fabric of environmental law, in its institutions, procedures and discourses. The Art of Environmental Law, the first book of its kind, brings new insights into the importance of aesthetic issues in a variety of domains of environmental governance around the world, from climate change to biodiversity conservation. It also argues for aesthetics, and relatedly the arts, to be taken more seriously in the practice of environmental law so as to improve our emotional and ethical capacities to address the upheavals of the Anthropocene.

The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics

The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics
Author: Peter J. Hutchings
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2014-06-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317797515

This book analyses the legal and aesthetic discourses that combine to shape the image of the criminal, and that image's contemporary endurance. The author traces the roots of contemporary ideas about criminality back to legal, philosophical and aesthetic concepts originating in the nineteenth century. Building on the ideas of Foucault and Walter Benjamin, Hutchings argues that the criminal, as constructed in places such as popular crime stories or the law of insanity, became an obsession which haunted nineteenth century thought.

Aesthetics, Community Character, and the Law

Aesthetics, Community Character, and the Law
Author: Christopher J. Duerksen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1999
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Today's planners use myriad tools and techniques to identify and protect what is special about their communities: historic preservation ordinances, improved sign controls, computerized viewshed protection regulations, tree-planting and landscaping requirements, cell tower controls, and more. As the level of preservation activity has increased dramatically, so has the number of court cases challenging aesthetic-based regulation.

Law and Aesthetics

Law and Aesthetics
Author: Adam Gearey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2001-06-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1847313019

Law and Aesthetics draws on the work of poets as well as philosophers. Taking as its starting point Shelleys assertion that poets are unacknowledged legislators,the book suggests that there is a way of thinking that, as yet, has not been taken up by those who make use of literary aesthetics to understand law. The book tracks this aesthetic thinking through the failures of critical legal studies and stages an encounter with psychoanalysis, before suggesting that an aesthetics of law can be exhumed from Nietzsches work. The aesthetic is a call to the creative: fashion new law. A review of contemporary legal theory that makes use of aesthetic perspectives suggests that dissident and radical Nietzschean energies continue to animate legal thought. In the final chapter, an aesthetics of law is shown to make for an interruption of legal categories, and the generation of new legal relationships. The book concludes with a further meditation on Shelleys poetry, and a call to continue in the spirit of aesthetic reinvention.