TY - BOOK AU - Goodrich,Peter AU - Kimmel,Anna Jayne AU - Meyler,Bernadette TI - Performing law: actors, affects, spaces T2 - Law in Context SN - 9781009674195 (ebook) AV - K2110 .P47 2026 U1 - 347.01 23 PY - 2026/// CY - Cambridge United Kingdom, New York, NY PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Court proceedings KW - Procedure (Law) KW - Courts KW - Trials KW - Justice, Administration of KW - Judges N1 - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Mar 2026); Peter Goodrich and Anna Kimmel : Introduction -- Lorna Hutson : Law, Rhetoric and Fictionality in the Age of Theatre : A Literary Response to Law as Performance -- Subha Mukherji : The poetics of hypokrisis in the early modern judicial theatre -- Piyel Haldar : The Outdoor Stages of Common Law -- Derek Miller : Law Text Performance -- Jesus Velasco : On Dialogue : Or Legal Performance in the Affective Space -- Simon Stern : Performing for the Audience -- Jisha Menon : Desiring Children : Vulnerability and the Sex Offender -- Goodrich : The Comediography of Law -- Baak Ertür : The Force of Laughter and a Minor Jurisprudence of Refusal : A Question of Silence (Marleen Gorris, 1982) -- Marco Wan : Oath Taking and Legal Performance -- Anna Jayne Kimmel : Naked Athena and Classical Lines : Wayward Aesthetics of the Exposed Body -- Julie Stone Peters : Coda / Cauda / Cado : What I Learned from Performing Law ; or, Thereby Hangs a Tail; Open Access N2 - The words 'all rise' announce the appearance of the judge in the thespian space of the courtroom and trigger the beginning of that play we call a trial. The symbolically staged enactment of conflict in the form of litigation is exemplary of legal action, its liturgical and real effects. It establishes the roles and discourses, hierarchy and deference, atmospheres and affects that are to be taken up in the more general social stage of public life. Leading international scholars drawn from performance studies, theatre history, aesthetics, dance, film, history, and law provide critical analyses of the sites, dramas and stage directions to be found in the orchestration of the tragedies and comedies acted out in multiple forums of contemporary legality. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009674195 ER -