Sensing the Nation's Law

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: Revolution, Constitution, Republic.- Chapter 2. Monument, Portrait, Tableau: Making Sense of and With Jacques Louis David's Tennis Court Oath.- Chapter 3. The Quest for the Decisive Constitutional Moment (DCM).- Chapter 4. Courbet and the Nude Republican Master.- Part II: The Aesthetic Constitution of Office.- Chapter 5. Justice Petrified: The Seat of the Italian Supreme Court between Law, Architecture and Iconography.- Chapter 6. Visual Rhetoric as "a Space-in-between": Semiotic Account of French Official Presidential Photographs.- Part III: Untimely Reflections on the Nation's Law .- Chapter 7. A Hypothesis on the Genealogy of the Motto "In God We Trust" and the Emergence of the Identity of the Church.-Chapter 8. Here and Now: From "Aestheticizing Politics" to "Politicizing Art".- Part IV: Out of Many, One.- Chapter 9. Appreciation or Appropriation? An Indigenous Moment in the American Numismatic Narrative (1999-2009). Chapter 10. Internormative Gastronomies: Law, Nation and Identity.- Part V: Consensus.- Chapter 11. Aesthetic Mediation: Towards Legitimate Power.

Mark Antaki, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley 2005) is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at McGill University. His research focuses on the relation of ethics and aesthetics and that of law and language. He is active in the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, and has been a fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study and McGill's Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas. He teaches courses in public and private law as well as legal theory.

Angela Condello, PhD (2013, Roma Tre) is Temporary Lecturer at the University of Roma Tre and Adjunct Professor (Jean Monnet Module "Cultures of Normativity" 2017-2010) at the University of Torino, where she also directs LabOnt Law. She cooperates with the Human Rights Committee of the Italian Senate of the Republic. In 2015 she was Fernand Braudel Fellow (EHESS, CENJ) and in 2014 she was a Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Law as Culture". Until 2016 shewas Guest Professor at the Law School of the University of Ghent. She teaches Law and Humanities at Roma Tre. She organizes the International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law (New York 2017; Torino 2019) and is in the boards of Law Text Culture, Law & Literature, Rivista di Estetica. She is Associate Editor of Brill Research Perspectives in Art and Law and directs a book series on French Philosophy and Law (Westminster University Press). In 2016 she received a Jean Monnet award. Her book Analogica. Il doppio legame tra diritto e analogia in forthcoming with Quodlibet (early 2018). 
Stefan Huygebaert is a Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) PhD Fellow at the Ghent Legal History Institute and Department of Art History, Musicology and Theatre Studies (Ghent University). His dissertation, entitled Visual Ideals of Law and Justice is an iconological study of legal imagery in nineteenth-century Belgium. In 2014-2015, and again in 2016-2017, Stefan was a PhDfellow (Stipendiat) within the Minerva Research