Introduction&William Pencak and Anne Wagner 1
Part 1: Images of Law 11
1 Deep Structures of Empire: A Note on Imperial Machines and Bodies&Ronnie Lippens 11
2 Intervention and The New Imagery of World Order&Wouter G.Werner 19
3 Key Words in Chinese Law&Deborah Cao 35
4 Visual Semiotics of Court Dress in England and Wales: Failed or Successful Vector of Professional Identity?&Shaeda Isani 51
5 The Drama of the Courtroom&Annabelle Mooney 71
6 Digital Visual and Multimedia Software and the Reshaping of Legal Knowledge&Neal Feigenson 89
7 A Las Meninas for the Law&Christina Spiesel 117
Part 2: Legal Language in Action 143
8 Legal Language in Action: Raising Basic Awareness about and Understanding of Competing Legal Systems in the Legal Classroom&Nicola M.Langton 143
9 Discourses of the Ideal and the Actual in the Courtroom: The Conflict for Jurors in ‘Making Sense’ of General Instructions&Philip Gaines 159
10 Jurors’ Recorded Deliberations: An Analysis&Paul Robertshaw 175
11 ‘Let Me See Your Hands’: The Grammar of Physical Control in Police Directives&Phillip C.H.Shon 205
12 Images of the Irish Family: A ‘Slightly’ Constitutional Arrangement&Sophie Cacciaguidi-Fahy 229
13 Images of Racial Discrimination in France&Anne Wagner 255
14 Law’s Trouble with Images: Fetishism and Seduction from Athens and Jerusalem to Madison Avenue&Robert A.Yelle 267
Bibliography 281
Index 307