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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2026

Edited by
Peter Goodrich ,
Anna Jayne Kimmel  and
Bernadette Meyler
Peter Goodrich
Affiliation:
Cardozo School of Law (Yeshiva University)
Anna Jayne Kimmel
Affiliation:
George Washington University, Washington DC
Bernadette Meyler
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California

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Performing Law
Actors, Affects, Spaces
 , pp. xiii - xiv
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2026
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  1. 1.1Carey Young, Palais de Justice (still), 2017. Single-channel HD video (from 4K); 16:9 format, colour, quadraphonic sound. 17 minutes, 58 seconds.

  2. I.0Carey Young, Palais de Justice (still), 2017. Single-channel HD video (from 4K); 16:9 format, quadraphonic sound. Installation view from Carey Young: Appearance, Modern Art Oxford, 2023.

  3. 5.1Elizabeth Robins, Votes for Women (The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1907).

  4. 5.2Deposition of Lawrence Paterson, Ohio Supreme Court, Case No. 2010-2029, 33.

  5. II.0Carey Young, Theatre of Punishment (2017) Photograph from Before the Law.

  6. III.0Carey Young, Intake Room, Police Station, Bruges, Belgium (2023). Colour photograph from Surfaces of Law.

  7. 9.1Emperor Hadrian and the Philosopher Epictetus, from Alciatus, Notitia dignitatum utraque iuris (1552). Wikicommons.

  8. 10.1Three ‘really very ordinary women’: Annie, Christine, Andrea. Still from A Question of Silence.

  9. 10.2The laughterhood. Stills from A Question of Silence.

  10. 10.3Law is represented mainly through its recording, copying, filing, and surveillance practices in A Question of Silence. Stills from the film.

  11. 10.4Janine with her tape recorder. Stills from A Question of Silence.

  12. 10.5Pentheus amid the bacchants. Stills from A Question of Silence.

  13. 13.1Calefurnia (tail exposed) tells her tale to the judge in an illustrated manuscript of the Sachsenspiegel (ca. 1295–1304). Heidelberg University Library, Cod. Pal. germ. 164.

  14. 13.2Calefurnia moons the judge in an edition of Martin le Franc’s profeminist Champion of Women [Champion des dames] (1488). Sig. s8r. Newberry Library, Chicago, Special Collections.

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