Publications by Professor Sherwin
Professor Richard Sherwin
Publications
BOOKS
Popular Culture and Law. (International Library of Law and
Society)(Introductory essay at xi-xxii & Law Frames: Historical
Truth and Narrative Necessity in a Criminal Case, Chapter 6 at
177-221)(Darthmouth/Ashgate, 2006)(Editor & contributor).
When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line Between Law and Popular Culture
(University of Chicago Press, 2000).
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“Law in the Age of
Images,” in Visual Literacy in Action (James Elkins, ed.,
Routledge, 2007).
“Law’s Enchantment: The
Cinematic Jurisprudence of Krzystztof Kieslowski,” in Popular
Culture and Law (International Library of Essays in Law & Society)
(Michael Freeman, ed., Ashgate, March 2005).
“Law in the Age of Images:
The Challenge of Visual Literacy,” Chapter in Contemporary
Issues in the Semiotics of Law at 231–55 (Hart Publishers,
2005).
“Anti-Oedipus, Lynch: Initiatory
Rites and the Ordeal of Justice,” Chapter in Law on the
Screen at 95-112 (A. Sarat, L. Douglas & M. Humphrey, eds.,
Stanford University Press, 2005).
“Law in Popular Culture,”
Chapter 6 in The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society at
95–112 (A. Sarat, ed., Blackwell Publishing, 2004).
“Framed,” Chapter 4 in
Legal Reelism: Movies as Legal Texts at 70–94 (John
Denvir, ed., University of Illinois Press, 1996).
LAW REVIEW AND OTHER SCHOLARLY
PUBLICATIONS
“What Is Visual Knowledge and What
Is It Good For? Potential Ethnographic Lessons From the Field of Legal
Practice.” Visual Anthropology (forthcoming 2007) (with
Neal Feigenson, & Christina Spiesel).
“A Manifesto for Visual Legal
Realism,” 40 Loyola Law Review (forthcoming 2007).
“Law, Metaphysics, and the New
Iconoclasm,” Article based on keynote lecture for Passages: law,
aesthetics and politics, 13th International Conference of the Law and
Literature Association of Australia at the University of Melbourne Law
School, Law/Text/Culture (forthcoming 2007).
"On Being Among Friends: A Response to Eugene Garver’s For
the Sake of Argument" (Book Review Symposium), 110 Penn State
Law Review 945-953 (2006).
“Law in the Digital Age: How
Visual Communication Technologies are Transforming the Practice, Theory,
and Teaching of Law,” Lead article in the Boston University Journal
of Law, Technology, and Science (2006) (with Neal Feigenson and
Christina Spiesel).
“Law’s Beatitude: A
Post-Nietzschean Account of Legitimacy” (Symposium: Nietzsche and
Legal Theory), 24 Cardozo Law Review 683–704
(2003).
“Celebrity Lawyers and the Cult of
Personality,” (Special Issue: Reflecting on the Legal Issues of Our
Times. New York Law School Faculty Presentation Day), 46 New
York Law School Law Review 517–526
(2002–2003).
“Nomos and Cinema”
(Symposium: Law and Popular Culture), 48 UCLA Law Review
1519–1543 (2001).
Foreword (Symposium: Law/Media/Culture:
Legal Meaning in the Age of Images), 43 New York Law School Law
Review 653–659 (2000).
“The Jurisprudence of
Appearances” (Symposium: Law/Media/Culture: Legal Meaning in the
Age of Images), 43 New York Law School Law Review 821–842
(2000).
Introduction (Symposium: Picturing
Justice: Images of Law and Lawyers in the Visual Media), 30
University of San Francisco Law Review 891–901
(1996).
“Cape Fear: Law’s Inversion
and Cathartic Justice” (Symposium: Picturing Justice: Images of Law
and Lawyers in the Visual Media), 30 University of San Francisco Law
Review 1023–1050 (1996).
“Law and the Myth of the Self in
Mass Media Representations,” 8 International Journal for the
Semiotics of Law 299–326 (1995).
“Law Frames: Historical Truth and
Narrative Necessity in a Criminal Case,” 47 Stanford Law
Review 39–84 (1994).
“The Narrative Construction of
Legal Reality” (Lawyers as Storytellers & Storytellers as
Lawyers: An Interdisciplinary Symposium Exploring the Use of Storytelling
in the Practice of Law), 18 Vermont Law Review 681–719
(1994).
Preface (Lawyering Theory Symposium:
Thinking Through the Legal Culture), 37 New York Law School Law
Review 1–7 (1992).
“Lawyering Theory: An Overview
‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Law’” (Lawyering
Theory Symposium: Thinking Through the Legal Culture), 37 New York Law
School Law Review 9–53 (1992).
“Rhetorical Pluralism and the
Discourse Ideal: Countering Division of Employment v. Smith, a Parable of
Pagans, Politics, and Majoritarian Rule,” 85 Northwestern
University Law Review 388–441 (1991).
“Law, Violence, and Illiberal
Belief,” 78 Georgetown Law Journal
1785–1835 (1990).
Dialects and Dominance: A Study of
Rhetorical Fields in the Law of Confessions, 136 University of
Pennsylvania Law Review 729–849 (1988).
“A Matter of Voice and Plot:
Belief and Suspicion in Legal Storytelling,” 87
Michigan Law Review 543–612 (1988).
“Publics, Experts and the Language
of Democracy: A Study in the Rhetoric of Law,” (J.S.D. Thesis)
(Columbia Law School, 1988).
“Opening Hart’s Concept of
Law,” 20 Valparaiso University Law Review 385–411
(1986).
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, PRACTICE
MATERIALS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Book Review of William Haltom and
Michael McCann’s Distorting the Law: Politics, Media and the
Litigation Crisis, 231 New York Law Journal 2
(November 23, 2004).
"Law in the Age of Images," in Visual
Literacy in Action (Routledge, 2007) (J. Elkin, ed).
"Law’s Enchantment: The Cinematic Jurisprudence
of Krzystzof Kieslowski," in Popular Culture and Law
(International Library of Essays in Law & Society) (Ashgate, 2005)
(M. Freeman, ed).
"Law’s Enchantment: The Cinematic Jurisprudence
of Krzysztof Kieslowski," 7 Law and Popular Culture Current Legal
Issues 2004 87-108 (Oxford University Press, 2005). (M. Freeman,
ed).
"Law in the Digital Age: The Challenge of Visual
Literacy, in Contemporary Issues" in the Semiotics of Law
231-255 (Onati International Series in Law and Society: Hart Publishers,
2005) (with N. Feigenson & C. Spiesel).
