Today’s preview of the papers to be given at the GJRA Discussions next
week comes from Professor Jill Marshall, who will be discussing her
fantastic ‘Legal Ideas Factory’: see the website at
http://www.legalideasfactory.com. Here's her abstract:
Using the tag line Law, Life, Global Action, I have set up a new venture
called the Legal Ideas Factory. It is a website containing legal information
which each month will focus on a specific area of law with blogs, comics,
animation and other videos. There are virtual events such as the Book Club and
the Film Club where books and films will be reviewed. One of the sections will
analyse legal issues through comic or graphic depiction. The aim of the website
is to enable law to be seen and done differently, to probe its potential
through alternative methodology to text. In particular, this method is used to
enable us to face up to violence and harm, oppression and injustice, so we can
aim to deal with it, investigate and do something about it. This chimes with
the Graphic Justice call for papers description of ‘the value or use of
popular, visual, and ‘geek’ media in understanding law, justice, and related
questions.’
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