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READINGS - COURT ARCHITECTURE AND ART
This page lists important literature (with weblinks, where some have open access) at the intersection of law, justice, power, iconography, semiotics, and art and architecture of courthouses and courtrooms (within a broader research area of Law and Visual Cultures) from different methodological, disciplinary, theoretical, and identity perspectives across several jurisdictions.
2025: Criminal law, court architecture, and the space of justice: Stakeholder perceptions of ‘special’ courts used in child sexual abuse trials in India by Shailesh Kumar
2022: Images, iconography, memories and performances of law in Indian High Courts, Law and Humanities 16(2) by Pratiksha Baxi
2021: From the Colonial to the Contemporary: Images, Iconography, Memories, and Performances of Law in India's High Courts, Hart by Rahela Khorakiwala
2021: At South Africa’s Constitutional Court, a Democracy Brick by Brick by Aneesa Bodiat
2019: From the Colonial to the Contemporary: Images, Iconography, Memories, and Performances of Law in India’s High Courts by Rahela Khorakiwala
2017: Interpreting the Scales of Justice: Architecture, Symbolism and Semiotics of the Supreme Court of India by Shailesh Kumar
2015: Modern Chinese Court Buildings, Regime Legitimacy and the Public by Björn Ahl and Hendrik Tieben
2014: Law, Culture and Visual Studies, Springer by Anne Wagner & Richard K. Sherwin (Editors)
2014: The Visual in Law: Some Problems for Legal Theory, Law, Culture and the Humanities 10 (1) by Neal Feigenson
2012: Review essay: Visual justice, International Journal of Law in Context 8(3) by Les Moran
2010: Legal Architecture: Justice, Due Process and the Place of Law by Linda Mulcahy
2007: Architects of Justice: the Politics of Courtroom Design, Social and Legal Studies 16 (3) by Linda Mulcahy
2002: Visual Cultures of the Courtroom: Reflections on History, Law and the Image, Visual Culture in Britain 3(2) by Lynda Nead
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