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Abstract
Now, twenty years on, what is law and literature in the face of the shift from graphic to visual, from text to image, from fiction to film?
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Notes
1. Respectively, Richard Posner, Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relation (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988)
; Julie Stone Peters, “Law, Literature, and the Vanishing Real: On the Future of an Interdisciplinary Illusion,” 120 PMLA 442 (2005) ; Stanley Fish, Save the World on Your Own Time (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) ; and Guyora Binder & Robert Weisberg, Literary Criticisms of Law (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006) suggest that cultural rather than literary criticism should take the stage.2. Julie Stone Peters, Theatre of the Book 1480–1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000)
.3. Notably, if severally, James Boyd White, Justice in Translation: An Essay in Cultural and Legal Criticism (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1990)
; Richard Weisberg, Poethics and Other Strategies in Law and Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990) ; Maria Aristodemou, Law and Literature: Journeys from Her to Eternity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) ; Francois Ost, Raconter la loi. Aux sources de l’imaginaire juridique (Paris: Albin, 2004) ; Peter Goodrich, The Laws of Love: A Brief Historical and Practical Manual (London: Palgrave, 2007) ; Antoine Garapon & Denis Salas, introduction to Imaginer la loi: Le droit dans la literature (Paris: Michalon, 2008) .4. David Evans, “The Inns of Court: Speculations on the Body of Law,” in Arch-Text 1, ed. Duncan Mc-Corquodale (London: Black Dog Publishing, 1993)
; and most recently Subha Mukerhji, Law and Representation in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006 ). For an important study of French contexts of this relation, see Christian Biet, Droit et literature sous l’ancien régime. Le jeu de la valeur et de la loi (Paris: Champion, 2002) .5. Sir John Davies, Elegies and Epigrams, cited in Mukherji, Law and Representation, supra note 4, at 175.
6. Paul Raffield, Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England: Justice and Political Power, 1558–1660 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004
).7. Florence Dupont, L’orateur sans visage. Essai sur l’acteur romain et son masque (Paris: P.U.F., 2000), 51–85
. Specifically on the legal ban, see Dupont, “La scène juridique,” 26 Communications 62 (1977) ; and Peter Goodrich, “Law,” in Encyclopedia of Rhetoric, ed. Tom Sloane (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004) .8. Bradin Cormack, A Power to Do Justice: Jurisdiction, English Literature, and the Rise of Common Law 1509–1625 (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2007)
; Shaun McVeigh, ed., The Jurisprudence of Jurisdiction (London: Routledge, 2007) .9. Joannis Baptistae, Cardinalis de Luca, Theatrum veritatis et iustitiae (Cologne, 1689)
.10. Sir Edward Coke, The Second Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England: Containing the Exposition of Many Ancient, and Other Statutes; Whereof You May See the Particulars in a Table Following (1631), 380 and 537, respectively.
11. Cormack, Power, supra note 8, at 22–31 in particular; on epiphanies and bodies in law, see Anne Bottomley, “Theory Is a Process and Not an End,” in Feminist Perspectives in Law and Theory, eds. Janice Richardson & Ralph Sandland (London: Cavendish Publishing, 2000)
.12. Sir Edward Coke, preface to The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. Or, A Commentarie upon Littleton, Not the Name of a Lawyer Onely, but of the Law It Selfe (London, 1628)
.13. Régis Debray, Vie et mort de l’image. Une histoire du regard en Occident (Paris: Gallimard, 1992), 221–54.
14. Erasmus, The Adages of Erasmus, ed. Dominic Baker-Smith (Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2001)
; William Fulbeck, Preparative to the Study of Law (London, 1599) .15. On the theater of the chancelleries, see Cornelia Vismann, Files: Law and Media Technology (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2008), 102.
16. Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatolgy remains one of the best discussions specifically on the metaphor of book and writing. So too his essay “Scribble: Writing-Power,” 58 Yale French Studies 116 (1979), provides key insights into the politics of texts. Also worthy of mention, and equally extreme, is Pierre Legendre, Les Enfants du texte (Paris: Fayard, 1996)
and De la Société comme texte (Paris: Fayard, 2001) , amongst other works.17. Peter Goodrich, “The Visial Line: On the Prehistory of Law and Film,” 14 Parallax 55 (2008)
; see also Goodrich, “Visive Powers: Colours, Trees and Genres of Jurisdiction,” 2 Law and Humanities 213 (2008) .18. The letter is reproduced in part and discussed in John Manning, The Emblem (London: Reaktion, 2002), 38
.19. The definition is from Joannes Comenius, preface to Orbis sensualium pictus (Cologne, 1672), sig. A3b.
20. Claude François Menestrier, “Plan for Study of the Philosophy of the Image,” reprinted as an appendix in L’Art des Emblemes, by Claude-François Menestrier (1684; facsimile repr., ed. Karl von Möseneder, Mäander: Mittenwald, 1984).
21. Cicero, De oratore (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1942), vol. III.lvi., 214–15
.22. Andrea Alciato, title page, Emblemata (Lyons, 1551). In many editions each emblem is itself reproduced as if on a stage, with columns to the side, above, and below as frame or stage.
23. Guillaume de Perrière, Le Théâtre de bons engins (Toulouse, 1544)
; Pierre Coustau, Pegma (Toulouse, 1555) is also a theatrical reference.24. Valérie Hayaert, Mens Emblematica et Humanisme Juridique: Le Cas du Pegma cum narrationibus philosophicis de Pierre Coustau (Geneva: Droz, 1555) (2008)
.25. George Wither, A Collection of Emblemes (London, 1635)
.26. Alain Supiot, Homo Juridicus: On the Anthropological Function of Law (London: Verso, 2007), 119–31
. A similar argument can be culled from W. T. Murphy, The Oldest Social Science: Configurations of Law and Modernity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992) .27. The Tretyse of Love (1494; repr. London: Oxford University Press, 1951), lines 19–20.
28. Philip Ayres, Emblemata amatoria (London, 1686)
.29. Robert Parker, A Scholasticall Discourse against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies: Especially in the Sign of the Cross (London, 1607), 47–48
.30. Submission, dir. Theo van Gogh, 2004.
31. See particularly Ian Buruma, Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance (New York: Basic Books, 2006)
.32. My preferred source here is the Toulousian lawyer Jean Coras, Altercacion, en forme de dialogue (Toulouse, 1558), 23–27.