Visual Legal Iconography

The seminars encourage and facilitate the growing interest in the interdisciplinary field of law, history and visual culture. As such, these reflections break away from the traditional view of law as an image-less, a text-based discourse. By incorporating scholarship from a wide range of disciplines, it offers an innovative and lively forum for the discussion of innovative and path-breaking legal and historical research on visual culture. The papers in this seminar series cover a wide range of themes, motifs and legal issues. Together, it showcases new research and comments from around 35 speakers, who are based in a variety of jurisdictions around the world.

Speakers

Valentin Jeutner (Lund University), The Relation between Law, Aesthetics and Empathy

Amanda Perry-Kessaris (University of Kent), Will Future Legal Histories be more Experiential?

Nicholas Mignanelli (Yale University), The Lost Swedish-Language Minnesota Practice Rules of John B. West

Daniel Quiroga (Graduate Institute, Geneva), ‘Architects of the Better World’: The Birth of the International Conference Complex (1918-1998)

Katharina Isabel Schmidt (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law), Nazi Law and Visual Culture in the Exhibition “Das Recht” (1936)

Grigorij Tschernjawskyj (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory), Of Mirrors and Hammers: Women in Law and in Art of the Weimar Republic (1918–1933)