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In Law and the Visual, leading legal theorists, art historians, and critics come together to present new work examining the intersection between legal and visual discourses.

Law and art.

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Law and art. --- Law in art. --- Time (Law) --- Time and art. --- Time in art. --- Social aspects. --- Law --- Art --- Chronology --- art [fine art] --- law [discipline] --- time --- art [discipline]

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In this pathbreaking and provocative analysis of the aesthetics of law, the historian, legal theorist, and musician Desmond Manderson argues that by treating a text, legal or otherwise, as if it were merely a sequence of logical propositions, readers miss its formal and symbolic meanings. Creatively using music as a model, he demonstrates that law is not a sterile, rational structure, but a cultural form to be valued and enhanced through rhetoric and metaphors, form, images, and symbols. To further develop this argument, the book is divided into chapters, each of which is based on a different musical form. Law, for Manderson, should strive for neither coherence nor integrity. Rather, it is imperfectly realized, constantly reinterpreted, and always in flux. Songs without Music is written in an original, engaging, and often humorous style, and exhibits a deep knowledge of both law and music. It successfully traverses several disciplines and builds an original and persuasive argument for a legal aesthetic. The book will appeal to a broad readership in law, political theory, literary criticism, and cultural studies.

Law and aesthetics. --- Aesthetics and law --- Aesthetics --- aesthetics. --- argument. --- argumentation. --- composition. --- creative nonfiction. --- cultural studies. --- form. --- justice. --- law. --- legal argument. --- legal brief. --- legal interpretation. --- legal precedence. --- legal text. --- legal writing. --- literary criticism. --- living constitution. --- living law. --- metaphor. --- music theory. --- music. --- musical forms. --- narrative structure. --- narrative theory. --- nonfiction. --- philosophy. --- political theory. --- rhetoric. --- symbolism. --- text. --- writing.

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The visual arts offer refreshing and novel resources through which to understand the representation, power, ideology and critique of law. This vibrantly interdisciplinary book brings the burgeoning field to a new maturity through extended close readings of major works by artists from Pieter Bruegel and Gustav Klimt to Gordon Bennett and Rafael Cauduro. At each point, the author puts these works of art into a complex dance with legal and social history, and with recent developments in legal and art theory. Manderson uses the idea of time and temporality as a focal point through which to explore how the work of art engages with and constitutes law and human lives. In the symmetries and asymmetries caused by the vibrating harmonic resonances of these triple forces - time, law, art - lies a way of not only understanding the world, but also transforming it.

Law in art. --- Law and art. --- Time in art. --- Time and art. --- Time (Law) --- Civil procedure --- Notice (Law) --- Limitation of actions --- Art and time --- Art --- Art and law --- Social aspects. --- Collectors and collecting --- Law and legislation

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This collection brings together major writers and major works on what Emmanuel Levinas means to law, and injects Levinas' provocative ethics right into the heart of living law, radically changing our understanding of both.

Ethics. --- Law --- Philosophy. --- Lévinas, Emmanuel.