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Inhalt: Werner Gephart / Jure Leko: Introduction: Law and the Arts. Effective Affinities and Relationships in Tension I. Theoretical orientations Eva Schurmann: Law as the Art of Picturing a Case Angela Condello / Enrico Terrone: Genre Classification: a Problem of Normativity and Exemplarity Tiziana Andina: Goodbye Beauty: Normativity in Contemporary Visual Arts Jose-Manuel Barreto: Feeling Human Rights: The Emotional Art of Viola, Salgado and Botero Uriel Procaccia: A Narrative of Legislative Failure: From Portalis to Picasso and Beyond Jan Christoph Suntrup: The Power of Judgment in Law, Politics, and the Arts II. Law and the Genres of Art Thomas Dreier: Law and Images: Normative Models of Representation and Abstraction Marie Bels / Patricia Branco: Law and Architecture: Courthouse Architecture, Searching for a New Balance between Representation and Functionality Laurent de Sutter: On the Obscenity of Law, or Why Pornography's Legacy is Worth Fighting for Morag Josephine Grant: Musical Communication, "Hate Speech", and Human Rights Law Inge Kroppenberg: Blind Bodies of Justice: Aesthetics and Law in Johann Gottfried Herder's "Sculpture" Marta Bucholc: Semantic Transparency of the Normative in the Poetry of Zbigniew Herbert III. Legal Cultures and the Aesthetics of the Law Werner Gephart: Abstraction: A Myth of the Occidental World Sabine E. Meyer: Law and the Map: Indigenous Art and the Remapping of the Settler State Grischka Petri: The Color of Law Zoltan Megyeri-Palffi: 'Following a Model' as an Element of the Hungarian Legal Culture with Special Regard to Gyula Wagner's Judicial Architecture IV. Living Art and Law in Action Interview with Tim Shaw