Performing Law: Actors, Affects, Spaces, edited by Peter Goodrich, Cardozo School of Law, Anna Jayne Kimmel, George Washington University, and Bernadette Meyler, Stanford Law School (Cambridge University Press), is now available open access on Cambridge Core:
The words 'all rise' announce the appearance of the judge in the thespian space of the courtroom and trigger the beginning of that play we call a trial. The symbolically staged enactment of conflict in the form of litigation is exemplary of legal action, its liturgical and real effects. It establishes the roles and discourses, hierarchy and deference, atmospheres and affects that are to be taken up in the more general social stage of public life. Leading international scholars drawn from performance studies, theatre history, aesthetics, dance, film, history, and law provide critical analyses of the sites, dramas and stage directions to be found in the orchestration of the tragedies and comedies acted out in multiple forums of contemporary legality.
--Dan Ernst
