Performing Law: Actors, Affects, Spaces
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The words 'all rise' announce the appearance of the judge in the thespian space of the courtroom and trigger the beginning of that play we call a trial. The symbolically staged enactment of conflict in the form of litigation is exemplary of legal action, its liturgical and real effects. It establishes the roles and discourses, hierarchy and deference, atmospheres and affects that are to be taken up in the more general social stage of public life. Leading international scholars drawn from performance studies, theatre history, aesthetics, dance, film, history, and law provide critical analyses of the sites, dramas and stage directions to be found in the orchestration of the tragedies and comedies acted out in multiple forums of contemporary legality.
ISBN
9781009674195
Publication Date
2-27-2026
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Disciplines
Jurisprudence | Law | Law and Society
Recommended Citation
Goodrich, Peter; Kimmel, Anna Jayne; and Meyler, Bernadette, "Performing Law: Actors, Affects, Spaces" (2026). Edited Works. 48.
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/faculty-edited/48
