Abstract

Law today lives in images the way images live on the screen. Visualizing law in real cases — through visual evidence and visual argument — is now becoming an increasingly routine part of legal practice in the United States, the United Kingdom and elsewhere. Viewers are used to being moved, edified and delighted (and at times titillated or even horrified) by what they see and hear on electronic screens both large and small. But what are the implications when the search for fact-based justice inside the courtroom depends upon those very responses? What does it mean for our system of law when the emotions we feel, or the sheer aesthetic delight, or the memories that are evoked, or the fantasies and desires that are activated by visual images become the motive force underlying legal judgment?

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