On Comics and Legal Aesthetics

Tapping into the recent 'turn' towards literary, cultural and visual concerns in legal studies, this book examines the critical value that comics can bring to law. Situated in-between the rational, textual, aesthetic and the visual, comics are, this book demonstrates, uniquely able to explore the limits of the legal text; and, in expanding legal discourse, to offer new ways of figuring the future of law.

Thomas Giddens is senior lecturer in law at St Mary's University, Twickenham. He researches critical, comics, and cultural legal studies. He founded the Graphic Justice Research Alliance in 2013 and edited the collection Graphic Justice: Intersections of Comics and Law (Routledge 2015). He also edits the on-going 'Graphic Justice' special collection at The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship and is a founding Co-Director of St Mary's Centre for Law and Culture.

List of Figures Acknowledgements Preface 1 On Comics and Other Ways of Knowing 2 A Ghostless Machine 3 The Irrational Threat 4 Horrific Jurisprudence 5 On Haunted Masks 6 Redrawing the Law Appendix A: Details of Comics Discussed Appendix B: Text from Figures Index