Judgment

Thomas Giddens is senior lecturer in law at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He founded the Graphic Justice Research Alliance and is the author of On Comics and Legal Aesthetics: Multimodality and the Haunted Mask of Knowing, editor of Graphic Justice: Intersections of Comics and Law, and coeditor of Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture: From Crime Fighting Robots to Duelling Pocket Monsters. His research focuses on critical, comics, and cultural legal studies, with particular interests in aesthetics, epistemology, and visuality.

• Judgment as…1 Legal Decision1.1 Resolution1.2 Precedent1.3 Common Law1.4 Further Reading2 Authority2.1 Legitimacy2.2 Office2.3 Sovereignty2.4 Further Reading3 Reason3.1 Method3.2 Limits3.3 Irrationality3.4 Further Reading4 Truth4.1 Fact/Law4.2 Knowledge4.3 Discipline4.4 Further Reading5 Technology5.1 Governance5.2 Language5.3 Automation5.4 Further Reading6 Performance6.1 Tradition6.2 Theatre6.3 Capture6.4 Further Reading7 Interpretation7.1 Meaning7.2 Text7.3 Violence7.4 Further Reading8 Rhetoric8.1 Audience8.2 Form8.3 Contingency8.4 Further Reading9 Creativity9.1 Narrative9.2 Improvisation9.3 Expression9.4 Further Reading