The Courtroom on Camera

Visions of Justice
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-01695-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Discourses of Law

This book presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the increasing use of cameras in the courtroom.

It’s been over 100 years since the Crime and Justice Act of 1925 banned cameras, sketches, and portrait-making in all courtrooms in England and Wales. But over the last 20 years, these restrictions have slowly been softened. Many courts in the UK now livestream their proceedings directly to the citizens, and a similar trend can be seen across the world, in part following the exigencies of Covid-19 and the need to maintain social distance. The reintroduction of cameras into the courtroom is accompanied by a wider transformation from physical to virtual/hybrid courts and the establishment of data-driven governance and digital infrastructures for court management systems. This transformation also coincides with a shift from traditional media to social media, where visual culture is replacing the power of the text, traditional public spheres are becoming virtual, and the citizen’s relationship with the state is increasingly digitised. Against this background the contributors to this book examine the use of cameras in courtrooms in various jurisdictions – including the UK, USA, India, and the Netherlands. Analysing its implications for law’s relationship to images, and the court’s relationship to the public in the new digital era, the book reveals how the use of cameras in the courtroom intersects with courts’ claims to open justice, whilst shedding light on evolving ideas of public access to courtrooms and legal spectatorship in the 21st century.

This book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of socio-legal studies, legal theory, and cultural and media studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sharma, Kanika

Kamiloglu, Ozan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Rechtswissenschaften Allgemeines Verfahrens-, Zivilprozess- und Insolvenzrecht Allgemeines Prozessrecht, Kostenrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Credo Quia Absurdum; Two Studies towards a Theory of Legal Absurdism 2. Capturing Justice: The Artistry and Artificiality of Courtroom Sketches in the UK 3. Cashing In or Calling Out?: Verbatim Theatre and the Performance of Legal Archives 4. The Changing Face of Justice: How Remote Technology is Reshaping our Criminal Trials 5. Cameras in the (special) Courtrooms & Child Sexual Abuse Trials: Adversarialism, Due-Process, and the Birth of Judicial Managerialism in India 6. Unveiling Law: The History of a Ban and of its Lifting 7. Civil order, civil society: Contempt and cameras in the Indian courtroom 8. Thinking Law Infrastructurally in the Age of Digital Transformation

Über Autor(innen)

Kanika Sharma is a Senior Lecturer in Law at SOAS University of London. She is a legal historian with a special interest in the use of images, architecture, and iconography by the law in colonial India. Her current work examines the same themes in relation to livestreamed trials in India and the UK.

Ozan Kamiloglu is a Senior Lecturer at London South Bank University. His research focuses on construction of neutrality, discourses of human rights, international law from below and technology and the law. He looks at the techniques used by law to construct neutrality, and the instruments developed and used by the justice system to achieve this aim.