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Matthias Baier

Matthias Baier

Senior lecturer

Matthias Baier

A visual self-image of legal authority: 'The temple of law'

Author

  • Bo Carlsson
  • Matthias Baier

Summary, in English

The focus of this article is on the legal profession's visual self-image of legal authority. It takes a departure from the themes of visual legal communication and discusses the relationship between text and pictures in the legal domain. The discussion concludes with a reflection on the consequences of the modern pictorial evolution. Bearing this discussion in mind, will the development of the ICT society (information and communication technology) impose new demands on the legal system, or will the law resist the sensuality of the pictorial turn? By describing and analysing 254 photographs produced by The Swedish National Court Administration (Domstolsverket), the analysis will indicate that the internal visual self-image conveyed by the photographs supports and maintains the law's stability and consistency.

Department/s

  • Department of Sociology of Law

Publishing year

2002

Language

English

Pages

185-209

Publication/Series

Social & Legal Studies

Volume

11

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Law and Society

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0964-6639