Representing justice
Subtitle: invention, controversy, and rights in city-states and democratic courtrooms
By: Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis
Contributors: Curtis, Dennis E. (Dennis Edward), 1933-
Series: Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference; Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 668
ISBN-13: 9780300110968
Subjects: Justice; Administration of Justice; Courts
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 607-628) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: A remnant of the Renaissance : the transnational iconography of justice; title: Civic space, the public square, and good governance; title: Obedience : the judge as the loyal servant of the state; title: Of eyes and ostriches; title: Why eyes? : color, blindness, and impartiality; title: Representations and abstractions : identity, politics, and rights; title: From seventeenth-century town halls to twentieth-century courts; title: A building and litigation boom in Twentieth-Century federal courts; title: Late Twentieth-Century United States courts : monumentality, security, and eclectic imagery; title: Monuments to the present and museums of the past : national courts (and prisons); title: Constructing regional rights; title: Multi-jurisdictional premises : from peace to crimes; title: From "rites" to "rights"; title: Courts : in and out of sight, site, and cite; title: An iconography for democratic adjudication.