Gary Watt
Biographic Data
| ID | 7542922 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary Watt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary |
| FAMILY NAME | Watt |
| SIGNATURE | WATT G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law
The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law
From Trump's 'make America great again' to Johnson's 'build back better', performative politicians use The Making Sense to persuade their public audiences. Law 'makers' do it too: A courtroom trial is a 'truth factory' in which facts are not found but forged. The 'court of popular opinion' is another such factory, though its processes are often flawed and its products faulty. Where courts of law aim to make civil peace, 'trial by Twitter' makes c…
Passing resemblance
Legal scholars have frequently observed that the word ‘person’ and the language of legal ‘personality’ derives from the Latin persona, which was the ancient Romans’ term for an actor’s mask, but they have seldom attended to the theatrical significance of the mask and sought there for insights into the legal idea. To address that lack, this article presents three case studies connected by concern for the passing on of theatrical masks. The first m…
Law and Humanities issue 14.2
Like almost all meetings to have taken place since the onset of COVID-19, the Law and Humanities roundtable of July 2020 took place online – this fact taking on some significance given that the foc
Law making music
This essay proceeds in three parts. The first part introduces a Māori waiata (a ceremonial song, with movements) that occurred in the debating chamber of the New Zealand parliament in 2017 on the Third Reading of Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Bill. The resulting statute confers legal personality on the Whanganui River. The second part advances a way of approaching musical appreciation as a mental activity which, by joining soun…
Sound and Fury Signifying Brexit
“Acoustic Jurisprudence” seeks to move our appreciation of the operation of sound in law beyond the merely metaphorical use of acoustic language to the audible quality of the soundscape itself. In this article, I connect the linguistic-metaphorical to the audible-sensory. My context is the ‘Brexit’ dispute as it has been played out in the UK Parliament, the UK Supreme Court, and elsewhere, especially as that dispute came to a crescendo on three o…
Forensic Shakespeare
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The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law
From Trump's 'make America great again' to Johnson's 'build back better', performative politicians use The Making Sense to persuade their public audiences. Law 'makers' do it too: A courtroom trial is a 'truth factory' in which facts are not found but forged. The 'court of popular opinion' is another such factory, though its processes are often flawed and its products faulty. Where courts of law aim to make civil peace, 'trial by Twitter' makes c…
Forensic Shakespeare
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Law and Humanities issue 14.2
Like almost all meetings to have taken place since the onset of COVID-19, the Law and Humanities roundtable of July 2020 took place online – this fact taking on some significance given that the foc
Law making music
This essay proceeds in three parts. The first part introduces a Māori waiata (a ceremonial song, with movements) that occurred in the debating chamber of the New Zealand parliament in 2017 on the Third Reading of Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Bill. The resulting statute confers legal personality on the Whanganui River. The second part advances a way of approaching musical appreciation as a mental activity which, by joining soun…
Sound and Fury Signifying Brexit
“Acoustic Jurisprudence” seeks to move our appreciation of the operation of sound in law beyond the merely metaphorical use of acoustic language to the audible quality of the soundscape itself. In this article, I connect the linguistic-metaphorical to the audible-sensory. My context is the ‘Brexit’ dispute as it has been played out in the UK Parliament, the UK Supreme Court, and elsewhere, especially as that dispute came to a crescendo on three o…
Passing resemblance
Legal scholars have frequently observed that the word ‘person’ and the language of legal ‘personality’ derives from the Latin persona, which was the ancient Romans’ term for an actor’s mask, but they have seldom attended to the theatrical significance of the mask and sought there for insights into the legal idea. To address that lack, this article presents three case studies connected by concern for the passing on of theatrical masks. The first m…
Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law
The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law
From Trump's 'make America great again' to Johnson's 'build back better', performative politicians use The Making Sense to persuade their public audiences. Law 'makers' do it too: A courtroom trial is a 'truth factory' in which facts are not found but forged. The 'court of popular opinion' is another such factory, though its processes are often flawed and its products faulty. Where courts of law aim to make civil peace, 'trial by Twitter' makes c…
Law in Society and Culture (4 works) · Art (2 works) · Comparative and International Law Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Acoustics (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art history (1 work)