1.1.
Vox Iurisprudentiae Picturae ^
- We live in an increasingly visual culture and are exposed to evergrowing quantities of pictures, images, icons, charts, figures, graphs, scales, tables, diagrams, maps, sketches, blueprints, and colorful and animated graphics. […] As new electronic tools promote the graphical, will new energies be focused on both understanding and creating through visual means? Will an increasingly visual culture devote more attention to the visual and teach about it just as print culture recognized that reading and writing text were fundamental skills that should occupy fundamental positions in the curriculum? Can the new media narrow the gulf between «visual reading» and «visual writing,» between visual consuming and visual creating, in the same manner that print narrowed the gulf between textual reading and writing? Is it likely that the new technologies can effect a new balance between visual consumer and visual creator? And if this occurs, what impact will it have on a text-oriented enterprise such as law?3
1.2.
Beyond Verbocentrism: Law as a Not Exclusively Textual Phenomenon ^
1.3.
Questions ^
2.1.1.1.
High Visual Legal Culture: Visual Legal Art ^
Fig. 1. Gabriël Metsu, The Triumph of Justice11
- The relationship between law and art can be analytically distinguished into two components: law’s art, the ways in which political and legal systems have shaped, used, and regulated images and art, and art’s law, the representation of law, justice, and other legal themes in art.12
2.1.1.2.
Popular Visual Legal Culture ^
2.1.2.
Further Visual Legally Relevant Contents ^
2.2.1.
Legal Visualizations in Legislation and in the Legal Sources in a Strict Sense ^
Images have a shadowy existence in modern law. Legal texts—whether laws, judgements or learned documents—on the whole contain no images or graphics. Text-books without images are almost symbolic of the subject of law. Although even here—as in all things in life—the exceptions prove the rule. The Highway Code with its images of traffic signals is the most obvious example. And in the fields of invention, patent and brand ownership, law images are not just normal, they are indispensable.25
2.2.2.
Legal Visualizations in Court Judgments ^
In recent years, the media have expected courts to inform the general public about proceedings and rulings. In response, some courts have resorted to public relations activities such as establishing designated websites and issuing media bulletins.39 Along with such verbal legal communication, I could well imagine courts also practicing visual legal communication (visual court PR). Thus, visual court PR would intersect with e-justice (2.2.4.1).
2.2.3.
Visual Jurisprudence: Legal Visualizations in Legal Education and Research ^
2.2.3.1.
Legal Visualizations in Legal Education ^
2.2.3.2.
Legal Visualizations in Legal Research ^
2.2.4.1.
Legal Visualizations in State Legal Practice in a Wide Sense ^
2.2.4.2.
Legal Visualizations in Private Legal Practice ^
- As a way to introduce the possibilities of approaching the law visually, this Comment employs the metaphor of legal map-making. A legal map is a mediation device between the law and a client’s needs to make a decision, a tool to be used by lawyers acting as legal guides. As travelers use maps of a physical landscape to decide the best way to go, lawyers create and use maps of the legal landscape to counsel clients on the best way to go.67
- As discussed earlier, electronic contracts eventually will be more than paper contracts in electronic form. They will monitor performances and alert parties and their lawyers about problems with performance or about a need for modifying and agreement due to changing conditions. […] What is important to recognize in connection with visual communication is that the medium’s visual capabilities provide intriguing possibilities for alerting us about change and about the direction of change. Images and numbers can be employed to show change in ways that are not possible with print. […] In the contract context, for example, lack of performance might send a red flag to the attorney for one of the parties. This could be an actual image of a red flag, and the red flag, if ignored, could grow larger over time, something that would be both meaningful and attention getting.73
Haapio et al. suggest introducing «[v]isualization [t]echniques into the [c]ontracting [p]rocess.»74 Haapio in particular has explored contract visualization in many other publications.75 So far, the examples of legal visualizations in private legal practice do not have a legal basis, but legislators will provide them with such a basis in the future.
2.2.5.
Visualized Legal and Legally Relevant Facts ^
- Today, with increasing frequency video displays and digital images accompany lawyers’ opening statements and closing arguments at trial. They are introduced as evidence in the form of animations, digital re-enactments, and video documentaries showing tort victims living damaged lives in the wake of accidents or botched surgeries or exposure to defective products or chemical pollutants. […]. And increasingly, on appeal, judges review the visual record of the trial to assess allegations of error. Did jurors, or perhaps a lower appellate judge, unreasonably construe visual evidence that jurors saw at trial? […] Lawyers show digital animations depicting reconstructed airplane accidents or that take us inside the body, picturing, for example, how plaque in an artery of the heart was allegedly dislodged by a careless surgeon or a faulty medical instrument.86
3.1.
Findings ^
3.2.
Conclusions ^
3.3.
Outlook ^
4.
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Colette R. Brunschwig, Senior Research Associate, Centre for Legal History, Legal Visualization Unit, Department of Law, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
I would like to extend my special thanks to Franz Kummer, co-founder and co-proprietor of Weblaw corporation (Switzerland), for inviting me to write this article. Furthermore, I wish to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Mark Kyburz for his editorial assistance.
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- 6 Rüthers, Fischer, & Birk, Rechtstheorie mit Juristischer Methodenlehre, 99 n. 150.
- 7 Silbey, «Images in/of Law,» 177. See also Baumann, «Weg vom Text,» 22.
- 8 Sherwin, Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque, 11. See also Feigenson & Spiesel, Law on Display, 13–17, and N. Y. L. Sch. Rev., Visualizing Law in the Digital Age, October 19 & 21, 2011, available at: http://www.nylslawreview.com/visualizing-law-in-the-digital-age (last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 9 Non-legal disciplines also study visual legal communication practices, albeit only partially and marginally. One case in point is business informatics; see, for instance, Olbrich & Simon, «Process Modelling towards E-Government,» 405–414; Fill, «Polysyntactic Meta Modelling,» 439-443; Heddier & Knackstedt, «Empirische Evaluation von Rechtsvisualisierungen am Beispiel von Handyverträgen,» 413–420, and Knackstedt & Heddier, «Argumentationstheoriebasierte Visualisierung als ‹Double-Feature, ›» 429–438.
- 10 See Legal Visualization Unit, Legal Image Database, available at: http://www.rwi.uzh.ch/oe/zrf/abtrv/bilddatenbank_en.html (last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 11 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Gabri%C3%ABl_Metsu_008.jpg (last accessed on July 22, 2013). This picture is in public domain.
- 12 Douzinas & Nead, «Introduction,» 11.
- 13 On its symbolic value, see, for instance, ECHR – Itineris (English version), available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po7SltV7r4U (last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 14 On legal iconography, see, for instance, Kocher, Zeichen und Symbole des Rechts, 36–41; Brunschwig, Visualisierung von Rechtsnormen, 11–26; Kocher, «Die Rechtsikonographie,» 107–117, and Mike Widener, «Legal Iconography Resources,» November 10, 2010, available at: http://library.law.yale.edu/news/legal-iconography-resources (last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 15 On legal iconology, see, for instance, Douzinas, «Prosopon and Antiprosopon,» 36–67, and Brunschwig, Visualisierung von Rechtsnormen, 11–22.
- 16 On the art and law movement, see, for instance, Marcílio Toscano Franca Filho, A Cegueira da Justiça (Porto Alegre: Fabris, 2011), and Ralph E. Lerner & Judith Bresler, Art Law, 4th ed. (New York, NY: Practicing Law Institute, 2013).
- 17 On visual legal semiotics, see Wagner & Sherwin (eds.), Law, Culture and Visual Studies (forthcoming).
- 18 Asimow & Mader, Law and Popular Culture, 4.
- 19 See Richard K. Sherwin, When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line between Law and Popular Culture (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007).
- 20 See, for instance, Bainbridge, «Visual Law,» 193–215.
- 21 Sherwin, «Imagining Law as Film,» 246.
- 22 Hohmann & Morawe, Praxis der Familienmediation, 200.
- 23 Brunschwig, «Multisensory Law and Therapeutic Jurisprudence,» 718. See Bodenmann, Verhaltenstherapie mit Paaren, 36, fig. 9.
- 24 See, for instance, Loukis, Xenakis, & Tseperli, «Using Argument Visualization to Enhance e-Participation in the Legislation Formation Process,» 125–138.
- 25 Boehme-Nessler, Pictorial Law, 105. On visual traffic law, see also Roland Streli, Die situative Visualisierung von Gesetzestexten am Beispiel der Strassenverkehrsordnung, PhD thesis University of Innsbruck (Innsbruck: [not published], 2009), and Dudek, «Paternalistic Regulations Expressed through Means of Visual Communication of Law,» 167–179.
- 26 See Brunschwig, Visualisierung von Rechtsnormen, 80–10 and 154–208.
- 27 See http://computationallegalstudies.com (last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 28 See Daniel Martin Katz, «Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The United States Code,» October 8, 2010, available at: http://computationallegalstudies.com/2010/10/08/measuring-the-complexity-of-the-law-the-united-states-code-repost/ (last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 29 Assogba, Ros, & McKeon, «DocBlocks,» 4117–4122.
- 30 Aktolga, Ros, & Assogba, «Detecting Outlier Sections in US Congressional Legislation,» 235–244.
- 31 Curtotti & McCreath, «Enhancing the Visualization of Law,» 1–27.
- 32 See, for instance, Brunschwig, Visualisierung von Rechtsnormen, 23–26.
- 33 See Lachmayer, «Visualisierung des Rechts,» 208–212, and Holzer, Rechtsvisualisierung im Strafrecht, 56–57.
- 34 See, for instance, Wegscheider, «Visualisierung im Strafrecht,» 319–327; Röhl & Ulbrich, Recht anschaulich, 12–27, and Bergmans, Visualisierung in Rechtslehre und Rechtswissenschaft, 1 sqq.
- 35 See Holzer, Rechtsvisualisierung im Strafrecht, 56.
- 36 See, for instance, Boehme-Nessler, Unscharfes Recht, 225–346, esp. 232–233, and Röhl & Röhl, Allgemeine Rechtslehre, 20–23.
- 37 See, for instance, Brunschwig, Visualisierung von Rechtsnormen, 80–81.
- 38 Colette R. Brunschwig, «Legal Visualizations in Court Judgments: Reflections and Questions,» June 8, 2011, available at: http://community.beck.de/gruppen/forum/visual-law/legal-visualizations-in-court-judgments-reflections-and-questions (last accessed on July 22, 2013). For further information, I refer the reader to my discussion on legal visualizations in court judgments in this English posting.
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The Institut für Rechtswissenschaft und Rechtspraxis [= Institute for Jurisprudence and Legal Practice] at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) organized a conference on «Kommunikation der Gerichte» [= Court Communication], which was devoted to verbal court communication (see http://www.irp.unisg.ch/~/media/Internet/Content/Dateien/InstituteUndCenters/IRP/Pdf%20Tagungen/2013/
1083_Kommunikation%20der%20Gerichte.ashx; last accessed on July 22, 2013). - 40 See http://www.admin.ch/ch/e/rs/2/220.en.pdf (last accessed on July 22, 2013). For details, see my «Producing, Analyzing, and Evaluation Legal Visualizations: A Pioneering Course at the Department of Law, University of Basel, Switzerland» (http://community.beck.de/gruppen/forum/producing-analyzing-and-evaluating-legal-visualizations-a-pioneering-course-at-the-department-of-law-unive; last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 41 Brunschwig, «Multisensory Law and Legal Informatics,» 621. See also Caroline Walser Kessel, Kennst du das Recht? Ein Sachbuch für Kinder und Jugendliche (Bern: Editions Weblaw, 2011), and http://kinderbuch.weblaw.ch (last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 42 Del Mar, «Legal Understanding and the Affective Imagination,» 181.
- 43 See Lachmayer, «Graphische Darstellungen im Rechtsunterricht,» 230–234; id., Computergraphik und Rechtsdidaktik, 9 sqq.; Cooper, Getting Graphic 2, 6 sqq.; Gross, «Visual Imagery and Law Teaching,» 8; Raphaela Henze, Bildmedien im juristischen Unterricht (Berlin: Tenea Verlag, 2003); Eric Hilgendorf, dtv-Atlas Recht, Vol. 1, Grundlagen, Staatsrecht, Strafrecht (München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2003); Bradford, «Reaching the Visual Learner,» 12–13; Thomas Langer, Die Verbildlichung der juristischen Ausbildungsliteratur (Berlin: Tenea Verlag, 2004); Felix Herzog, Strafrecht illustrated: 30 Fälle aus dem Strafrecht in Wort und Bild (Hamburg: merus verlag, 2007); Erich Hilgendorf, dtv-Atlas Recht, Vol. 2, Verwaltungsrecht, Zivilrecht (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2007); Klaus F. Röhl & Stefan Ulbrich, Recht anschaulich: Visualisierung in der Juristenausbildung (Cologne: Halem, 2007); Bernhard Bergmans, Visualisierungen in Rechtslehre und Rechtswissenschaft: Ein Beitrag zur Rechtsvisualisierung (Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2009); Röhl, «(Juristisches) Wissen über Bilder vermitteln,» 295–305; Burgess «Reflections on the Use of Visual Representations of Legal Representations of Legal and Institutional Constructs as Assignments in Legal Education for Pre-Service Teachers in Canada,» 123–166; Hahn, Mielke, & Wolff, «Juristische Lehrcomics,» 393–402, and Christa Tobler & Jacques Beglinger, Grundzüge des bilateralen (Wirtschafts)-Rechts Schweiz – EU: Systematische Darstellung in Text und Tafeln, Vol. 1 and 2 (Zurich, St. Gallen: Dike, 2013).
- 44 See, for instance, Holzer, Rechtsvisualisierung im Strafrecht, 205–211, and http://vdrl.eu/dokumentation/rechtsdidaktik-und-paedagogik/ (last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 45 See http://www.irp.unisg.ch/de/Kompetenzzentrum+Rechtspsychologie (last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 46 On visual justice, see, for instance, Röhl, «Gerechtigkeit vor Augen,» 369, 382–383.
- 47 See, for instance, Kocher, Zeichen und Symbole des Rechts, 7–14, and Engels, «Zum historischen Quellenwert von Bildern,» 153–184.
- 48 See, for instance, Röhl, «Logische Bilder im Recht,» 815–838.
- 49 See, for instance, Röhl, «Gerechtigkeit vor Augen,» 369–384; Röhl & Röhl, Allgemeine Rechtslehre, 20–23, and Röhl, «Logische Bilder im Recht,» 815–838.
- 50 Brunschwig, «Multisensory Law and Legal Informatics,» 622: See also http://elaw.murdoch.edu.au/index.php/elawmurdoch/article/view/5 (last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 51 See Parycek, Sachs, & Schossböck, «Offene Daten und Informationen im Politikzyklus,» 336. On legal visualization in e-government, see also Olbrich & Simon, «Process Modelling towards E-Government,» 405–414.
- 52 See, for instance, Bundeskanzleramt, «Rechtsinformationssystem RIS,» [s. t.], available at: http://www.ris.bka.gv.at/ (last accessed on July 22, 2015).
- 53 See Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft, Eidgenössisches Justiz- und Polizeidepartement, Dokumentation, «Neues Erwachsenenschutzrecht tritt am 1. Januar 2013 in Kraft: Kantone müssen ihre Behördenorganisation anpassen,» January 12, 2011, available at: http://www.ejpd.admin.ch/content/ejpd/de/home/dokumentation/mi/2011/2011-01-12.html, and http://www.admin.ch/ch/e/rs/210/indexni45.html (both websites last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 54 See Walser Kessel, «Rechtsvisualisierung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Abstraktion und Applikation,» 403–411. See also Caroline Walser Kessel, Im Bild sein über das Kindes- und Erwachsenenschutzrecht: Der Vorsorgeauftrag und die gesetzliche Vertretung (Bern: Editions Weblaw, 2013).
- 55 See id., «Rechtsvisualisierung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Abstraktion und Applikation,» 403, 408.
- 56 See id., «Rechtsvisualisierung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Abstraktion und Applikation,» 408.
- 57 See ibid.
- 58 See The Federal Authorities of the Swiss Confederation, Legislation, «The Protection of Adults,» in force since January 1, 2013, http://www.admin.ch/ch/e/rs/210/indexni45.html (last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 59 SeeThe Federal Authorities of the Swiss Confederation, Legislation, Representative Deputyship, «Asset Management,» in force since January 1, 2013, http://www.admin.ch/ch/e/rs/210/a395.html (last accessed on July 22, 2013). See also Walser Kessel, «Rechtsvisualisierung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Abstraktion und Applikation,» 407.
- 60 See The Federal Authorities of the Swiss Confederation, Legislation, The Deputyship, «Combination of Deputyships,» in force since January 1, 2013, http://www.admin.ch/ch/e/rs/210/a397.html (last accessed on July 22, 2013). See also Walser Kessel, «Rechtsvisualisierung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Abstraktion und Applikation,» 407.
- 61 See, for instance, European Court of Human Rights, The Court, General Information on the Court, available at: http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/EN/Header/The+Court/Introduction/Information+documents/, and European e-justice, Visual Business Register displays commercial networks in Estonia, January 17, 2011, available at: https://e-justice.europa.eu/newsManagement.do?idNews=14&plang=fi&action=show (both websites last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 62 See http://www.parlament.hu/angol/legislation.htm (last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 63 See http://www.parl.gc.ca/About/House/ReportToCanadians/2008/rtc2008_06-e.html (last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 64 See, for instance, Parycek, Sachs, & Schossböck, «Offene Daten und Informationen im Politikzyklus,» 336.
- 65 See, for instance, European Commission (ed.), «Information and Communication Technologies: Biometrics and Justice,» RTD Info, Magazine on European Research, [s.t.], available at: http://ec.europa.eu/research/rtdinfo/46/print_article_2932_en.html (last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 66 See, for instance, Hudson-Smith, Evans, & Batty, «Building the Virtual City,» 62–85.
- 67 McCloskey, «Visualizing the Law,» 164–165.
- 68 Id., «Visualizing the Law,» 165.
- 69 Meier, Schweizerisches Zivilprozessrecht, 586 n. 1078.
- 70 Brunschwig, «Multisensory Law and Therapeutic Jurisprudence,» 733.
- 71 http://www.sydneymediation.com.au/ (last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 72 http://www.sydneymediation.com.au/books-sydney-mediation.php, and Colette R. Brunschwig, Visual Law for Children and Adolescents, August 11, 2010, available at: http://community.beck.de/gruppen/forum/visual-law/visual-law-for-children-and-adolescents (both websites last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 73 Katsh, Law in a Digital World, 161–162.
- 74 Haapio et al., «Time for a Visual Turn in Contracting?» 52.
- 75 See, for instance, Haapio, «Visualising Contracts and Legal Rules for Greater Clearity,» 391–394; id., «Contract Clarity and Usability through Visualization,» 64–84, and id., «Designing Readable Contracts,» 445–452. See also Jones III, «Envisioning Visual Contracting,» 27–31.
- 76 Jordan Bennett, «Paternalistic Manipulation through Pictorial Warnings,» 1911.
- 77 Id., «Paternalistic Manipulation through Pictorial Warnings,» 1910.
- 78 Id., «Paternalistic Manipulation through Pictorial Warnings,» 1912.
- 79 Ibid. On these images in private legal practice, see also Markus Becker, «Raucher-Abschreckung: USA bringen Schockbilder auf Zigerettenschachteln,» Spiegel Online Wissenschaft, November 11, 2010, available at: http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/raucher-abschreckung-usa-bringen-schockbilder-auf-zigarettenschachteln-a-728540.html (last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 80 See Maier, Litigation PR, 31–32. On litigation PR, see also Holzinger & Wolff, Im Namen der Öffentlichkeit, 18–23; Boehme-Nessler, «Die Öffentlichkeit als Richter?» 20-51; Rehbinder, «Litigation-PR als professionelle Dienstleistung,» 771–780.
- 81 See http://www.merkur-online.de/aktuelles/boulevard/kachelmanns-richter-rudern-zurueck-967074.html. See also Maier, Litigation PR, 3, and http://www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/promi-outfits-vor-gericht-boese-maedchen-in-nadelstreifen-1.176782 (last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 82 See Holzinger & Wolff, Im Namen der Öffentlichkeit, 13, and Maier, Litigation PR, 17, 20–21.
- 83 See Mnookin «The Image of Truth,» 4.
- 84 Feigenson & Spiesel, Law on Display, 1.
- 85 Sherwin, When Law Goes Pop, 6–7. Similarly, see Feigenson & Dunn, «New Visual Technologies in Court,» 109.
- 86 Sherwin, Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque, 14. Similarly, see id., Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque, 58–59.
- 87 Spiesel, Sherwin, & Feigenson, «Law in the Age of Images,» 232, footnote 2.
- 88 See Leuenberger & Uffer-Tobler, Schweizerisches Zivilprozessrecht, 221–225, n. 9.28–9.43; Berti, Einführung in die schweizerische Zivilprozessordnung, 123–125, n. 369–372, and Sutter-Somm, Schweizerisches Zivilprozessrecht, 194–196, n. 780–789. As regards US-American evidence law (federal level), see, for instance, Mauet & Wolfson, Trial Evidence, 9–26, 347–354, and Joseph, Modern Visual Evidence, Chapter 9.02.
- 89 See Leuenberger & Uffer-Tobler, Schweizerisches Zivilprozessrecht; Berti, Einführung in die schweizerische Zivilprozessordnung, 133, n. 397–398, and Sutter-Somm, Schweizerisches Zivilprozessrecht. Regarding US-American evidence law (federal level), see, for instance, Mauet & Wolfson, Trial Evidence, 15.
- 90 See, for instance, Feigenson & Dunn, «New Visual Technologies in Court,» 109–126; Mauet, Trial Techniques, 13–29; Feigenson, «Audiovisual Communication and Therapeutic Jurisprudence,»336–340, and id., «Visual Evidence,» 149–154.
- 91 See, for instance, Spiesel, Sherwin, & Feigenson, «Law in the Age of Images,» 232, 238–255; http://www.nyls.edu/faculty/faculty_profiles/richard_k_sherwin; and (both websites last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 92 See Austin, «The Next ‹New Wave›,» 848–867, and
- 93 See, for instance, Sherwin, «Law in Popular Culture,» 95–112. See also http://www.nyls.edu/centers/projects/visual_persuasion/law_and_popular_culture/popular_legal_studies (last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 94 See id. «Law in Popular Culture,» 95–112.
- 95 See, for instance, Bainbridge, «Visual Law,» 193–215, and Garrett, «Trademarks as a System of Signs,» 221–236.
- 96 Spiesel, Sherwin, & Feigenson, «Law in the Age of Images,» 247.
- 97 On visual law, see Brunschwig, «Multisensory Law and Legal Informatics,» 617–628.
- 98 On the subject matter of visual law, see id., «Multisensory Law and Legal Informatics,» 618–626. This paper marks a first attempt to classify or systematize the law as a visual phenomenon both within and outside the legal context. The need for classification or systematization is also recognized by SILBEY, who argues that «it might be helpful if within the field of the visualization of law we develop a taxonomy of the various strategies of visualization, how they occur in our society generally, and how they are embedded in diverse legal contexts specifically» (Silbey, «Images in/of Law,» 183).
- 99 On the cognitive interest of visual law, see id., «Multisensory Law and Legal Informatics,» 626–628.
- 100 Sherwin uses the term «visual jurisprudence.» See Sherwin, Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque, 5, 10, 13, 18, 21, 44, 49, 52, 54, 55, 122, 179, 185, 187, and 190–191, and id., «Visual Jurisprudence,» 11, 12, 20, 36–39.
- 101 Silbey, «Images in/of Law,» 179, 183. See also Wahlgren, «Visualization of the Law,» 19–24.
- 102 Brunschwig, Rechtsvisualisierung, IX–XII; Holzer, Rechtsvisualisierung im Strafrecht, 53–60, and Riedl, «Die Kompetenz zur Abstraktion als Informatik-Erfolgsfaktor,» 42. Grappling with the term «Rechtsvisualisierung» [«visualization of law»], Holzer instead suggests «Rechtsvisualistik» [«visualistics of law»] (see Holzer, Rechtsvisualisierung im Strafrecht, 55–57). The word «visualization» can be associated both with the production of legal visualizations and with the end-product—the legal visualization—itself. The same applies to the German expression «Rechtsvisualisierung» (see Holzer, Rechtsvisualisierung im Strafrecht, 54–55, 58).
- 103 Sherwin, «Visual Jurisprudence,» 20. See also Brunschwig, «Multisensory Law and Legal Informatics,» 607–617, and Holzer, Rechtsvisualisierung im Strafrecht, 55–57.
- 104 See Brunschwig, «Law Is Not or Must Not Be Just Verbal or Visual in the 21st Century,» 238.
- 105 See Brunschwig, Visualisierung von Rechtsnormen, 80–99, 154–191; id., «Rechtsikonographie, Rechtsikonologie und Rechtsvisualisierung,» 42, and Holzer, Rechtsvisualisierung im Strafrecht, 58, 128–163.
- 106 See Brunschwig, «Rechtsikonographie, Rechtsikonologie und Rechtsvisualisierung,» 42.
- 107 See Silbey, «Images in/of Law,» 180.
- 108 See, for instance, Brunschwig, Visualisierung von Rechtsnormen, 118–121; id., «Rechtsikonographie, Rechtsikonologie und Rechtsvisualisierung,» 42; Röhl & Ulbrich, Recht anschaulich, 53–65; Bergmans, Visualisierungen in Rechtslehre und Rechtswissenschaft, 33–88, and Holzer, Rechtsvisualisierung im Strafrecht, 63–106.
- 109 See, for instance, Brunschwig, «Legal Design,» 367–369, and id. «Rechtsikonographie, Rechtsikonologie und Rechtsvisualisierung,» 42.
- 110 See Brunschwig, «Legal Design und Web Based Legal Training,» 297–308; Holzer, Rechtsvisualisierung im Strafrecht, 194–195, and Heddier & Knackstedt, «Empirische Evaluation von Rechtsvisualisierungen am Beispiel von Handyverträgen,» 413–420.
- 111 See Holzer, Rechtsvisualisierung im Strafrecht, 111–116.
- 112 See id., Rechtsvisualisierung im Strafrecht, 106.
- 113 See Brunschwig, «Rechtsikonographie, Rechtsikonologie und Rechtsvisualisierung,» 42, and Holzer, Rechtsvisualisierung im Strafrecht, 116–126.
- 114 See Brunschwig, «Rechtsikonographie, Rechtsikonologie und Rechtsvisualisierung,» 42.
- 115 On the context dependency of meaning, see, for instance, Sherwin, «Visual Jurisprudence,» 16.
- 116 See Brunschwig, «Rechtsikonographie, Rechtsikonologie und Rechtsvisualisierung,» 42.
- 117 On whether Justice must be blind or not, see Jay, «Must Justice Be Blind?» 19–35.
- 118 See Sellert, Recht und Gerechtigkeit in der Kunst, 111; Röhl, «Gerechtigkeit vor Augen,» 371, and Johann von Schwarzenberg, «Bambergische Peinliche Halsgerichtsordnung,» f. 77b, available at: http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/desbillons/bambi/seite164.html (last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 119 See Brunschwig, «Law Is Not or Must Not Be Just Verbal or Visual in the 21st Century,» 282 sq.
- 120 There is no space to enumerate Professor Lachmayer’s publications in full. Instead, I refer the reader to the comprehensive list of publications on his website (see http://www.legalvisualization.com/; last accessed on July 22, 2013).
- 121 See http://www.univie.ac.at/RI/IRIS2013/ (last accessed on July 22, 2013).