Law and Images

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41107-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 96 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 164 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Art and Law

Law and images are generally not regarded as having much in common, since law is based on textual and images are based on visual information. The paper demonstrates that quite to the contrary, legal norms can be understood as models of intended moral behaviour and hence as images, in the same way as images can be said to have a normative and hence regulatory effect. Following an interdisciplinary approach along the lines of cultural research, the paper explains how images “function” to lawyers and how the law “works” to those trained in the visual sciences. In addition, laying the foundations for a research field “Law and Images” in parallel to the well-established “Law and Literature”, the paper describes the main avenues for future research in this field. Also, the paper contains a brief systematization of images in law, of law and for law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dreier, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Urheberrecht Kunst-, Musik-, Verlags- und Theaterrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Beziehungen des Rechts zu anderen Disziplinen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas Dreier, Dr. iur (1990), M.C.J. (1983), is Professor of Civil law and Information law at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, as well as Honorary Professor at the University of Freiburg, and Senior Fellow of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Law as culture”. He has extensively published on art law and copyright law.