List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Preface

1 On Comics and Other Ways of Knowing

2 A Ghostless Machine

3 The Irrational Threat

4 Horrific Jurisprudence

5 On Haunted Masks

6 Redrawing the Law

Appendix A: Details of Comics Discussed

Appendix B: Text from Figures

Index

Tapping into the recent 'turn' towards literary, cultural and visual concerns in legal studies, this book examines the critical value that comics can bring to law.

Thomas Giddens is senior lecturer in law at St Mary's University, Twickenham. He researches critical, comics, and cultural legal studies. He founded the Graphic Justice Research Alliance in 2013 and edited the collection Graphic Justice: Intersections of Comics and Law (Routledge 2015). He also edits the on-going 'Graphic Justice' special collection at The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship and is a founding Co-Director of St Mary's Centre for Law and Culture.