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Books

Jan. 22, 2011

Designing Justice

A new book discusses how the symbols we use to connote justice have changed with the times. By Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis of Yale Law School.

By Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis

"The book charts how the iconography of justice has both reflected and influenced the development of courts and national governments and how that imagery is now often no longer able to carry the weight of the legal demands of the modern world... As a legal tome the book is probably the only one ever to mingle Supreme Court citations with interviews with contemporary artists like Tom Otterness, and Jenny Holzer, both of whom have created ...

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