Visualizing Law in the Digital Age
Visualizing Law in the Digital Age – Program

October 19, 2011, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Cardozo Law School, Room 1008

  • Laurent Sutter: “Legal Pornology” – 10:15 am
  • Julie Stone Peters: “Visual Legal Studies” – 11:15 am
  • Boxed lunch – 12:15 pm
  • W.J.T. Mitchell: “Migration, Law, and the Image” – 1:15 pm
  • Nathan Moore: “Premature Contractualization: Images Before the Law” – 2:45 pm

 

October 21, 2011, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.: New York Law School, 2nd Floor Events Center

  • Breakfast: 9:00 am — 9:30 am
  • Welcome: 9:30 – 9:45
  • Panel 1: “Visualizing Legal Scholarship” [9:45 am -- 11:15 am]
    • Amy Adler, Emily Kempin Professor of Law, New York University (“Performance Anxiety: Visuality and Sexuality in First Amendment Law”)
    • Desmond Manderson, Canada Research Chair in Law and Discourse, McGill University (“The Sight of Justice: Images of Colonialism and the Rule of Law”)
    • Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence & Political Science, Amherst College  (“The Justice of Jurisdiction: Visualizing Law’s Boundaries in Touch of Evil”)
    • Jessica Silbey, Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School  (“Writing About Images In and Of Law”)
  • Break: 11:15am  – 11:30 am
  • Panel 2: “Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque” [11:30 am -- 1:00 pm]
    • Christian Delage, Université de Paris-VIII and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (“On Visual Evidence and Digital Images”)
    • Francis J. Mootz III, William S. Boyd Professor of Law, University of Nevada  (“Law Among the Sight Lovers”)
    • Richard Sherwin, Professor of Law, New York Law School  (“Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque”)
    • Alison Young, Professor, University of Melbourne  (“Arresting the Image”)
  • Lunch: 1:00 pm — 1:45 pm
  • Panel 3: “Visual Literacy for Lawyers” [1:45 pm -- 3:15 pm]
    • Christian Biet, Professeur d’Études Théâtrales, Université de Paris X  (“Visualizing the Law in the Baroque Age. The Play of Value and the Law: Image and Comedy at the End of Louis XIV’s Reign”)
    • James Elkins, E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago  (“What Counts as Visual Evidence in Art and Science?”)
    • Peter Goodrich, Professor of Law, Cardozo Law School  (“The Visual Thresholds of Law”)
  • Wine & cheese reception: 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm