Graphic Justice

Thomas Giddens is Lecturer in Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Law and Culture at St Mary’s University. He researches in cultural legal studies, focusing on the use of comics and graphic fiction in legal studies, as well as criminal justice and legal philosophy.

• Introduction, 1 Lex Comica: On Comics and Legal Theory, Part 1: Introducing Comics and Law, 2 Holy Blurring of Core Copyright Principles, Batmobile!, 3 Devil’s Advocate: Representation in Heroic Fiction, Daredevil and the Law, 4 I am the Law Teacher!: An Experiential Approach using Judge Dredd to Teach Constitutional Law, 5 Not Foresighting and Not Answering: Using Graphic Fiction to Interrogate Social and Regulatory Issues in Biomedicine, 6 Law and the Machine: Fluid and Mechanical Selfhood in The Ghost in the Shell, Part 2: Graphic Criminology, 7 When (Super)heroes Kill: Vigilantism and Deathworthiness in Justice League, Red Team, and the Christopher Dorner Killing Spree, 8 Extreme Restorative Justice: The Politics of Vigilantism in Vertigo’s 100 Bullets, 9 Violent Lives, Ending Violently?: Justice, Violence and Ideology in Watchmen, 10 Stepping off the Page: ‘British Batman’ as Legal Superhero, Part 3: Graphic Justice International, 11 The Hero We Need, Not the One We Deserve: Vigilantism and the State of Exception in Batman Incorporated, 12 Judge, Jury and Executioner: Judge Dredd, Drones, Jaques Derrida, 13 Crimes against (Super)Humanity: Graphic Forms of Justice and Governance, 14 Graphic Reporting: Human Rights Violations through the Lens of Graphic Novels