Painting constitutional law
Subtitle: Xavier Cortada's images of constitutional rights
By: edited by M. C. Mirow and Howard M. Wasserman
Series: Legal history library -- volume 46; Legal history library -- v. 46.
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9789004364301; 9789004445598
Subjects: Constitutional law; Civil rights; Cases; Decision making; United States. Supreme Court; United States
Other titles: Xavier Cortada's images of constitutional rights
Description: "In May It Please the Court, artist Xavier Cortada portrays ten significant decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States that originated from people, places, and events in Florida. These cases cover the rights of criminal defendants, the rights of free speech and free exercise of religion, and the powers of states. In Painting Constitutional Law, scholars of constitutional law analyse the paintings and cases, describing the law surrounding the cases and discussing how Cortada captures these foundational decisions, their people, and their events on canvas. This book explores new connections between contemporary art and constitutional law. Contributors are: Renée Ater, Mary Sue Backus, Kathleen A. Brady, Jenny E. Carroll, Erwin Chemerinsky, Xavier Cortada, Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Leslie Kendrick, Corinna Barrett Lain, Paul Marcus, Linda C. McClain, M.C. Mirow, James E. Pfander, Laura S. Underkuffler, and Howard M. Wasserman"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: May it please the court of Florida, from Florida, for Florida / Howard M. Wasserman; title: Legal iconography and painting constitutional law / M.C. Mirow; title: Xavier Cortada socially engaged activist artist / Renée D. Ater; title: Gideon v. Wainwright, the surprising power of a prisoner petition / Paul Marcus and Mary Sue Backus; title: Williams v. Florida, what's in a number? Jury function and jury numbers / Jenny E. Carroll; title: Miami Herald Publishing Company v. Tornillo, freedom of speech for whom? / Leslie C. Kendrick; title: Proffitt v. Florida, distorting death / Corinna Barrett Lain; title: Palmore v. Sidoti, the troubling effects of 'private biases' / Linda C. McClain; title: Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, the meaning of free exercise, equality, and beyond / Kathleen A. Brady; title: Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida, sovereignty and the Eleventh Amendment imag(in)ed / James E. Pfander; title: Bush v. Gore, haste makes mistakes / Erwin Chemerinsky; title: Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, on art, law, and the power of the sea / Laura S. Underkuffler; title: Florida v. Jardines, the distortions of implied artistic license / Andrew Guthrie Ferguson.