Time: 10:30am - 7:00pm Venue: Haldane Room, Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford, OX2 6UD
This one-day workshop will examine the role of images in legal scholarship, both theoretically and historically. By bringing together legal and art history academics, it will establish a new network of scholars from a variety of disciplines—art, history, law, anthropology—interested in the intersection of images and law.The last decade has seen much research into the intersection of the visual and the legal, yet the impact on the practice of contemporary legal scholarship has been limited, and there is little methodological reflection on the roles that images and imagery have played in scholarship about law.For the first time in the UK, this workshop will explore these issues with legal scholars, art historians, art theorists, visual epistemologists, anthropologists, and explore future avenues of research.
This workshop is co-organised by Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott (Oxford) and Dr Maks Del Mar (Queen Mary).
10:30–11:00 Tea and Coffee
11:00–12:00 Keynote speakerDr Carolin Berhmann, Kunsthistorisches Institut in FlorenzeTitle: ‘Nomos of Images’
12:05–1:05 Keynote speakerDr Clare Sandford-Couch, Northumbria UniversityTitle: ‘Images and Legal Authority in Fourteenth Century Florence’
1:05–2:00 Lunch
2:00–4:30 Short presentations with breaks
Panel 1Dr Patricia Cain, ArtistTitle: ‘Practices of Thinking: Law and Art’
Ms Sophie Arkette, Leverhulme Artist-in-Residence, Centre for Intellectual Property & Information Law, University of CambridgeTitle: ‘Appearance v Materiality: On the Nature of Fixation in UK & Dutch Copyright Law’
Professor Amanda Perry-Kessaris, Kent Law SchoolTitle: ‘Graphic Legal Interdisciplinarity’Panel 2Professor Fernanda Pirie, Oxford UniversityTitle: ‘Visual Regularity in Tibetan Legal Documents’
Professor Geoffrey Samuel, University of KentTitle: ‘The Use of Images in Legal Reasoning’
Dr Thomas Giddens, St Mary’s University, TwickenhamTitle: ‘Comics and Legal Aesthetics: Navigating the Limits of Rational Text with Graphic Fiction’Panel 3Professor Denis Galligan, Oxford UniversityTitle: ‘On Trial for Treason: The Unlikely Alliance of John Lilburne and Edward Coke’
Professor Adam Gearey, Birkbeck, University of LondonTitle: ‘Once Poor Always Poor: Images of Law and Poverty in George Orwell’s “The Road to Wigan Pier”’
Professor Mathias Siems, Durham UniversityTitle: ‘Mapping Law Visually’Panel 4Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, Oxford UniversityTitle: TBA
Dr Maks Del Mar, Queen Mary University of LondonTitle: ‘Visualising the Common Law Tradition’
Professor Wayne Morrison, Queen Mary University of LondonTitle: ‘Visualising the Nationalist Socialist Nomos’
4:30–5:00 Tea and Coffee
5:00–6:00 Keynote speakerProfessor Marie-Laure Mathieu, University of MontpellierTitle: ‘Images in Legal Reasoning’
6:00–7:00 Keynote speakerProfessor Peter Goodrich, Benjamin N Cardozo School of LawTitle: ‘Imago Decidendi- Pictures as Precedents’
7:00 Closing remarks
To reserve your place, please visit The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society website.
For more information please contact maks.delmar@qmul.ac.uk.
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