Spacing Law and Politics

Leif Dahlberg is professor in Communication at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and associate professor in Comparative Literature, Stockholm University, Sweden.

• Introduction Spacing Law and Politics 1. Emotional Tropes in the Courtroom. On representation of affect and emotion in legal court proceedings 2. Achilles’ Wrath and the Law: Juridical Space(s), Striated and Smooth 3. Before the Temple of Justice: Reading Roman Law Reading 4. Factoring out Justice: Imaginaries of Community, Law, and the Political in Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Niccolò Machiavelli 5. The Spaces of Venice. Reading and Performing the Law in/of The Merchant of Venice 6. Mapping the Law of Strasbourg. Reading Old Maps of Strasbourg as Constituting Juridical Space and Representing Judicial Places 7. A Modern Trial. A Study of the Use of Video-Recorded Testimonies in the Swedish Court of Appeal and of Its Effects on Social Interaction and the Constitution of Judicial Space Concluding remarks. Becoming-Juridical

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