Visualizing Law in the Digital Age 

Program:

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 Imagies 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 ("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 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