Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis are law professors at Yale Law School.
“This is an undertaking of major proportions. It is visionary in
its aspirations and impressive in its achievements... It is
fascinating, entertaining, and a joy to own… it would be my desert
island reading.”—John Brigham, Law & Society Review
Winner of the 2011 PROSE Award for Excellence in the Social
Sciences, as given by the Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2011 PROSE Award for Law and Legal Studies, as given
by the Association of American Publishers
Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 in the
U.S. Politics category.
Winner of the 2012 Scribes Book Award, as given by Scribes, The
American Society of Legal Writers
The 2014 Coif Book Award given by the National Order of the
Coif.
"Representing Justice is a fascinating and ambitious study of the
iconography of justice and what it reveals about attitudes towards
a just society, impartiality and authority, from the Renaissance to
the Mexican Muralists. In this engaging and eminently readable
book, the authors show how emblems, icons and courthouses vividly
embody the fundamentally democratic process of adjudication."—Ruth
Weisberg, Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern
California
"How did a blindfolded lady holding scales became the ubiquitous
image of justice? How have designs and decorations of spaces
defined and redefined adjudication? Assembling monumental research,
Resnik and Curtis powerfully show how images and buildings reflect
and shape local and international justice across human history and
how privatized dispute resolution, security concerns, and
diminishing community participation erode the ideal and reality of
courts' justice."—Martha Minow, Dean and Jeremiah Smith, Jr.
Professor, Harvard Law School
"In this visually stunning and provocative book, Judith Resnik and
Dennis Curtis lead us to think in new ways about justice as symbol,
justice as reality, and the connections as well as the distance
between the two."—Linda Greenhouse, Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in
Law, Yale Law School
"This is a profoundly original and rich book. By looking at the
public iconography of justice the book maps the evolution of courts
and their relationship with public power and democracy as it has
never been done. In this instance, an image is indeed worth a
thousand words. Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis offer us the images
and articulate the words."—Miguel Poiares Maduro, Professor
and Director of the Global Governance Programme European,
University Institute Villa La Pagliaiuola
“This book is a richly documented study of the iconography of
Justice, from Antiquity through its medieval personification as a
Cardinal Virtue to the emergence of her figure as an independent
icon of a social value. Tracing the continuing resonance of
that figure to the modern court room and in the public imagination,
Representing Justice demonstrates the power of an image to embody
ideals and, when those ideals are ignored, to stand as an
indictment of injustice.”—David Rosand, Meyer Schapiro Professor of
Art History Emeritus, Columbia University
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