DD7HW2

The article I chose for the assignment summarize an article #1 is called The Visual in Law: Some Problems for Legal Theory, by Neal Feigenson.

Informative abstract: The article The Visual In Law: Some Problems for Legal Theory is about how digital visual displays make people think about legal knowledge in new ways and undos our beliefs of community inside and outside of law. The article describes three problems with the rise in numbers of visuals and the affect it has on legal theory. The first problem is the concern of how to include the many uses of images in a court within a jurisprudence of words. The second problem is how some visuals create a belief by seeming to combine access to the real with the attraction of dreams. The third tells the reader to rethink what legal judgment may borrow from popular visual culture while still maintaining acceptable justice. Each problem connects with our conceptions of what law and legal knowledge should be.

Descriptive abstract: The article The Visual In Law: Some Problems for Legal Theory is about how law and legal theory work through problems that will help shape our ideas of what it is to do justice, and who we are when we try to do it, in a digital world.

N. Feigenson, The Visual in Law: Some Problems for Legal Theory, 10 Law, Culture and the Humanities 13–23, 13-23 (2014).