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.
 
This site is sponsored by New York Law School's Visual Persuasion Project (Professor Richard K. Sherwin, founder & director).
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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
 

 

 

 

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
 

 

 

 

 

 


New Book from Routledge

On Today Show on televising capital punishment.

C-SPAN Interview about his book, When Law Goes Pop
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