Borrowing the title of Peter Goodrich’s essay, Law by Other Means, we note with Goodrich that “if the legislator was regarded, at least in one medieval tradition, as the unacknowledged poet of the world, the lawyer was historically a sub-species of linguist, variously depicted as a purveyor of fictions, an actor and narrator, an artist, "conteur," and spinner of verbal images or painted words.”

This edition of Law by Other Means, an outcome of conversations between faculty at the JNU and Warwick, aims to interrogate the manifold ways of picturing law, politics and justice in everyday and extraordinary contexts.

By highlighting the performative, the visual and the affective, we hope to stage a conversation on the aesthetics of the state, political and juridical iconography, images of justice, and anthropological pictures of law and politics in everyday or exceptional contexts. Moving from political or juridical iconography, we will also examine how contestations around violence, gender and sexuality are framed.