We are delighted to present the first Routledge Handbook of Socio-Legal Theory and
Methods, a collection that showcases the breadth of work animating contemporary socio …

What are the implications of comics for law? Tackling this question, On Comics and Legal
Aesthetics explores the epistemological dimensions of comics and the way this once …

This book offers an outline of the foundations of a theory of constitutional semiotics. It
provides a systematic account of the concept of constitutional semiotics and its role in the …

Researchers have turned to comics as outputs incorporating their research findings. These
comics are print and/or online publications that can lead to the wider adoption of research …

Batman is allied with modern natural law in the way he relies upon reason to bring about his
vision of 'true justice', operating as a force external to law. This vision of justice is a protective …

Reading Arkham Asylum jurisprudentially, we encounter a story of the meeting of reason
and unreason in the context of justice–of conscious law and its unconscious threat. Batman's …

Constitutional semiotics is a relatively poorly researched field of scientific knowledge which
constitutes a novel branch of scientific exploration. The literature on constitutional semiotics …

The law appears visually: in the layouts of judicial texts, the formatting of statutes, the gowns
and costumes of judges and court staff, the uniforms of police officers, the architecture and …

This article draws together two trajectories of legal scholarship: the turn to the visual in legal
studies and the emergence of the subfield of law and comics, or'graphic justice'. It does this …

The approach in this chapter derives from cultural criminology, which explores the rich
meanings of different realms of human behaviour within their lived contexts, thereby …