Eyes of the Law

A Visual Turn in Socio‐Legal Studies

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ID11449190
AuthorsLinda Mulcahy (0000-0001-5461-0996, Law Department London School of Economics Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE England, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume44
IssueS1
Publication date2017-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Law and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-323X • E-ISSN: 1467-6478
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jols.12052
OpenAlexW2766917785
LanguageEN
Citations received12

A number of sub‐disciplines have emerged in recent years with the specific goal of examining the visual dynamics of academic fields of inquiry. The turn to the visual masks a multitude of meanings about the significance of the image, ranging from new ways of defining a field of inquiry, to what constitutes legitimate sources for research or discussions of image production or visual prompts as a data collection method. This article asks what it means for socio‐legal scholars to engage with the image and the opportunity it might provide us with to see what law looks like from the perspective of law's subjects. These might include art installations in galleries, images of the places where justice is administered as well as photographs created by those who are subjected to legal regulation. In addition to a written essay I offer up three visual essays which can be read and contemplated with or without the written text which accompanies them

Art · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Multitude · Perspective (graphical · Photography · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Visual research · Comparative and International Law Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Legal Education and Practice Innovations · Philosophy

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