In courtrooms, law offices, government
agencies, and elsewhere, how truth and justice are represented and
assessed is increasingly dependent on what appears on electronic screens.
Lawyers are coming to realize that in order to be successful they must
understand the tools of communication at their (and their adversaries')
disposal, especially the visual and multimedia tools that digital
technologies make available. Lawyers in the digital era must comprehend
and master the effects of these visual tools on their audiences'
perceptions, thoughts, and emotions. Advocates who do not adapt to these
demands are going to be at a competitive disadvantage.
There are many visuals to explore on this site. Choose your own
entry point and pathway: from top-flight
visual
litigation service providers (featuring best practices in visual
persuasion inside the courtroom) to
visual
legal training (featuring new law teaching tools and methodologies in
real and virtual classrooms) to
law and popular culture studies (featuring new scholarly approaches to
the interpenetration of law and pop culture) to
recent
media events (featuring current law-related developments in the visual
mass media).
The goal of the Visual Persuasion Project is
to promote a better understanding of the practice, theory, and teaching of
law in the current screen-dominated, pervasively visual, digital era. The
Project was formed in 2005 to study and advance the cultivation of
critical visual intelligence, to inspire creative visualizations of
evidence, case narratives, policy analysis, and legal argumentation, and
to help lawyers, judges, law students, and the lay public integrate new
visual tools into more traditional (textual and verbal) approaches to
legal analysis.
For more information about Professor Sherwin's work,
visit:
Visualizing Law Conference
Trailer:
 October 19, 2011 @ Cardozo Law School
October 21, 2011 @ New
York Law School
Conference Panelist
Interviews:
Interview of Professor Richard K.
Sherwin
Interview of Professor Peter
Goodrich
Interview of Professor Nathan
Moore
Interview of Professor Laurent de
Sutter
Interview of Professor Desmond
Manderson
Interview of Professor Jessica
Silbey
Interview of Professor Jay Mootz
Conference Presentations: Presentation by
Prof. Amy
Adler 
Performance Anxiety: Visuality and Sexuality in First
Amendment Law | Presentation by
Prof. Desmond
Manderson
The Sight of Justice: Images of Colonialism and the Rule of
Law | Presentation by
Professor Jessica
Silbey
Writing about Images in and of Law
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Presentation by
Prof. Jay Mootz 
Law Among the Sight Lovers
| Presentation by
Prof. Alison Young
Arresting the Image
| Presentation by
Prof. Christian
Delage
Visual Evidence and Digital Image | Presentation by
Prof. Richard K.
Sherwin
Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital
Baroque |
Presentation by
Prof. Christian
Biet 
Visualizing Law in the Baroque
Age. The Play of Value and the Law: Image and Comedy at the End of Louis
XIV's Reign | Presentation by
Prof. Peter
Goodrich
The Visual Thresholds of Law
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New Book
from Routledge
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On Today Show on televising
capital punishment. 
C-SPAN Interview about his book,
When
Law Goes Pop
[University of Chicago Press
2000] |
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