Seeing Law: The Comic, Icon and the Image in Law and Justice

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Tranter, Kieran
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2017
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This special issue examines how the comic and the icon prefigure forms of legality that are different to modern law. There is a primal seeing of law unmediated by reading, writing or possibly thinking. This introduction identifies the primacy of the eye, the emergence of visual jurisprudence and the transformations of law as a paper-based material practice to a digitally enabled activity.This special issue examines how the comic and the icon prefigure forms of legality that are different to modern law. There is a primal seeing of law unmediated by reading, writing or possibly thinking. This introduction identifies the primacy of the eye, the emergence of visual jurisprudence and the transformations of law as a paper-based material practice to a digitally enabled activity.
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Journal Title
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
Volume
30
Issue
3
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© 2017 Springer Netherlands. This is an electronic version of an article published in International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 2017, Volume 30, Issue 3, pp 363–366. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique is available online at: http://link.springer.com// with the open URL of your article.
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Law and legal studies