Visual Evidence in Law

The seminars encourage and facilitate the growing interest in the interdisciplinary field of law, history and visual culture. As such, these reflections break away from the traditional view of law as an image-less, a text-based discourse. By incorporating scholarship from a wide range of disciplines, it offers an innovative and lively forum for the discussion of innovative and path-breaking legal and historical research on visual culture. The papers in this seminar series cover a wide range of themes, motifs and legal issues. Together, it showcases new research and comments from around 35 speakers, who are based in a variety of jurisdictions around the world.

Speakers

Thomas Giddens (University of Dundee), Touching the Images of Judgment

Johannah Latchem (University of Oxford), My Bloody Oar: Law’s Materials Reimagined in Contemporary British Art

Craig Newberry-Jones (University of Exeter), ‘The Jolly Young Barrister’: The Visual Representation of the Bar in the Popular Illustrated Press of the Nineteenth Century

Gee Semmalar (University of Kent), The Evidencing of Difference: Caste, Gender and Ethnographic Photography in 19th c British India

Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan University), Moving Beyond the 'Mug Shot': Expanding the Frame for Considering how Photographs were used as Metropolitan and Colonial Evidence in Britain in the 1860s and 1870s

Diana Volonakis (Northumbria University), Agents of the Law and the Court as Depicted by Press Photography in The New York World, 1922-1927