Spacing Law and Politics

Download or read book Spacing Law and Politics written by Leif Dahlberg and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Emotional tropes in the courtroom : on display and representation of affect and emotion in court proceedings -- Achilles' wrath and the law : juridical space(s), striated and smooth -- Before the temple of justice : reading Roman law reading -- Factoring out justice : imaginaries of community, law, and the political in Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Niccolò Machiavelli -- The juridical spaces of Venice : reading and performing the law in/of the Merchant of Venice -- Mapping the law : reading old maps of Strasbourg as constituting juridical space and representing judicial places -- A modern trial : a study of the use of video-recorded testimonies in the Swedish Court of Appeal and of its effects on social interaction and the constitution of judicial space -- Concluding remarks : becoming juridical