Representing justice : invention, controversy, and rights in city-states and democratic courtrooms / Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis.

New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2011.

1st edition

76695

Justice, Administration of.

Justice.

Courts.

Chapter 1. Chapter 2. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Chapter 6. Chapter 7. Chapter 8. Chapter 9. Chapter 10. Chapter 11. Chapter 12. Chapter 13. Chapter 14. Chapter 15. A remnant of the renaissance : the transnational iconography of justice

Civic space, the public square, and good governance

Obedience : the judge as the loyal servant of the state

Of eyes and ostriches

Why eyes? : color, blindness, and impartiality

Representations and abstractions : identity, politics, and rights

From seventeenth-century town halls to twentieth-century courts

Building and litigation boom in twentieth-century federal courts

Late twentieth-century United States courts : monumentality, security, and eclectic imagery

Monuments to the present and museums of the past: national courts (and prisons)

Constructing regional rights

Multi-jurisdictional premises : from peace to crimes

From rites to rights

Courts: in and out of sight, site, and cite

Iconography for democratic adjudication.

Detailed table of contents available via online link.

Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

9780300110968

xvii, 668 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm