Representing Justice

Representing Justice

Author: Judith Resnik

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 719

ISBN-13: 0300110960

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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 -- A 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 -- An iconography for democratic adjudication.


Legislative Calendar

Legislative Calendar

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13:

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