Law and Film (Discourses of Law)

Review

"The joys of reading this volume can only be matched by the personal enthusiasm of its editors: straight out of an extraordinarily imaginative series of film-projection-and-discussion events at Sciences Po ‘Eating Popcorn like a Lawyer’ (in which I have had the privilege of being invited), this book continues with the same personal freshness, ludic inventiveness, and rigorous analysis of the intersection between juridical thought and moving image. The result is nothing less than astonishing: a panorama of spectacular reconfigurations of both what law and what cinema is through a fine balance of personal autoethnographic details, film theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and critical legal and critical sociolegal theory. This is an astutely curated collection, with early career as well as established interdisciplinary thinkers, that pushes the limits of law, image, senses, perceptions and affects. What unites all chapters is a strong sense of responsibility to open up the law to the revitalising power of films. An extremely fresh and valuable addition to the law and film literature" Professor Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Legal Theorist / Artist / Fiction Author, University of Westminster, London, UK

Professor Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos,

"The joys of reading this volume can only be matched by the personal enthusiasm of its editors: straight out of an extraordinarily imaginative series of film-projection-and-discussion events at Sciences Po ‘Eating Popcorn like a Lawyer’ (in which I have had the privilege of being invited), this book continues with the same personal freshness, ludic inventiveness, and rigorous analysis of the intersection between juridical thought and moving image. The result is nothing less than astonishing: a panorama of spectacular reconfigurations of both what law and what cinema is through a fine balance of personal autoethnographic details, film theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and critical legal and critical sociolegal theory. This is an astutely curated collection, with early career as well as established interdisciplinary thinkers, that pushes the limits of law, image, senses, perceptions and affects. What unites all chapters is a strong sense of responsibility to open up the law to the revitalising power of films. An extremely fresh and valuable addition to the law and film literature" Professor Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Legal Theorist / Artist / Fiction Author, University of Westminster, London, UK