Spacing Law and Politics

Leif Dahlberg is professor in Communication at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and associate professor in Comparative Literature, Stockholm University, Sweden.

Introduction Spacing Law and Politics 1. Emotional Tropes in the Courtroom. On representation of affect and emotion in legal court proceedings 2. Achilles’ Wrath and the Law: Juridical Space(s), Striated and Smooth 3. Before the Temple of Justice: Reading Roman Law Reading 4. Factoring out Justice: Imaginaries of Community, Law, and the Political in Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Niccolò Machiavelli 5. The Spaces of Venice. Reading and Performing the Law in/of The Merchant of Venice 6. Mapping the Law of Strasbourg. Reading Old Maps of Strasbourg as Constituting Juridical Space and Representing Judicial Places 7. A Modern Trial. A Study of the Use of Video-Recorded Testimonies in the Swedish Court of Appeal and of Its Effects on Social Interaction and the Constitution of Judicial Space Concluding remarks. Becoming-Juridical