Representing justice invention, controversy, and rights in city-states and democratic courtrooms
Resnik, Judith
Representing justice invention, controversy, and rights in city-states and democratic courtrooms - New Haven Yale University Press 2011 - Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 607-628) and indexes.
A remnant of the Renaissance : the transnational iconography of justice -- Civic space, the public square, and good governance -- Obedience : the judge as the loyal servant of the state -- Of eyes and ostriches -- Why eyes? : color, blindness, and impartiality -- Representations and abstractions : identity, politics, and rights -- From seventeenth-century town halls to twentieth-century courts -- A building and litigation boom in Twentieth-Century federal courts -- Late Twentieth-Century United States courts : monumentality, security, and eclectic imagery -- Monuments to the present and museums of the past : national courts (and prisons) -- Constructing regional rights -- Multi-jurisdictional premises : from peace to crimes -- From "rites" to "rights" -- Courts : in and out of sight, site, and cite -- An iconography for democratic adjudication.
9780300110968
2010934588
GBB098262 bnb GBB098262 dnb
015629517 Uk
Justice, Administration of.
Justice.
Courts.
K2100 / .R48 2011
Representing justice invention, controversy, and rights in city-states and democratic courtrooms - New Haven Yale University Press 2011 - Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 607-628) and indexes.
A remnant of the Renaissance : the transnational iconography of justice -- Civic space, the public square, and good governance -- Obedience : the judge as the loyal servant of the state -- Of eyes and ostriches -- Why eyes? : color, blindness, and impartiality -- Representations and abstractions : identity, politics, and rights -- From seventeenth-century town halls to twentieth-century courts -- A building and litigation boom in Twentieth-Century federal courts -- Late Twentieth-Century United States courts : monumentality, security, and eclectic imagery -- Monuments to the present and museums of the past : national courts (and prisons) -- Constructing regional rights -- Multi-jurisdictional premises : from peace to crimes -- From "rites" to "rights" -- Courts : in and out of sight, site, and cite -- An iconography for democratic adjudication.
9780300110968
2010934588
GBB098262 bnb GBB098262 dnb
015629517 Uk
Justice, Administration of.
Justice.
Courts.
K2100 / .R48 2011