This book presents a concise, critical, and engaging tour through a variety of key understandings of judgment within legal study and analysis.

Thomas Giddens is senior lecturer in law at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He founded the Graphic Justice Research Alliance and is the author of On Comics and Legal Aesthetics: Multimodality and the Haunted Mask of Knowing, editor of Graphic Justice: Intersections of Comics and Law, and coeditor of Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture: From Crime Fighting Robots to Duelling Pocket Monsters. His research focuses on critical, comics, and cultural legal studies, with particular interests in aesthetics, epistemology, and visuality.

Judgment as...

1 Legal Decision

1.1 Resolution

1.2 Precedent

1.3 Common Law

1.4 Further Reading

2 Authority

2.1 Legitimacy

2.2 Office

2.3 Sovereignty

2.4 Further Reading

3 Reason

3.1 Method

3.2 Limits

3.3 Irrationality

3.4 Further Reading

4 Truth

4.1 Fact/Law

4.2 Knowledge

4.3 Discipline

4.4 Further Reading

5 Technology

5.1 Governance

5.2 Language

5.3 Automation

5.4 Further Reading

6 Performance

6.1 Tradition

6.2 Theatre

6.3 Capture

6.4 Further Reading

7 Interpretation

7.1 Meaning

7.2 Text

7.3 Violence

7.4 Further Reading

8 Rhetoric

8.1 Audience

8.2 Form

8.3 Contingency

8.4 Further Reading

9 Creativity

9.1 Narrative

9.2 Improvisation

9.3 Expression

9.4 Further Reading