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Law, Spectacle and the Play of Jurisdiction

Author: Frans-Willem Korsten
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781041045250
Published In: February 2026
Format: Hardback
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This book offers a critical consideration of the theatrical nature of the judiciary, as it examines how legal proceedings are regularly turned into a public spectacle.

In legal cases, all those involved must play their parts, according to the rules, on a stage that is open to public scrutiny. As this book demonstrates, however, the affordances offered by new media, in a society spellbound by spectacle and embroiled in the polarization that accompanies it, can easily disrupt the theatrical nature of the court case. The book is divided into two parts. In part 1, cases – from the Netherlands, the United States of America, Italy, Brazil, India, Germany, and Russia – show how populists, insurgents, corporations, and states play the judiciary by probing its limits or the rules of the game, often by twisting the proper intent of legal regulation or by formally making a farce of jurisdiction. In part 2, the chapters deal with weaknesses in the theatrical nature of the judiciary in a time of spectacle. Here, the central issue is how the judiciary is threatened by dramatic forms of excess: forms that exceed the frame and stage of the judiciary’s own theatricality. Bringing cultural analysis and play studies in conversation with legal analysis and legal philosophy, the book shows how the theatrical nature of the judiciary is more and more challenged by the force of the spectacular, and with it a strategic and tactically malevolent play of powerful actors that fragments collective feelings for justice, and instrumentalizes the law in the service of particular interests.

Law, Spectacle, and the Play of Jurisdiction will appeal to scholars and students in legal theory, law and literature, and others with relevant interests in theatre and cultural studies.

Chapter 1: Jurisdiction as an object of frivolity: theatricality and spectacle

Chapter 2: The Judiciary as Play and Rules of the Legal Game: Double Play, Staging, Scene, and the Role(s) of the Expert

Chapter 3: Besmirching Judges, Undermining Authority: Populists' Carnivalesque Play with Feelings of Law and Justice

Chapter 4: Unitarians Playing with Jurisdiction: Wager, Match, Chance and the Myth of the One

Chapter 5: Intimidating Opponents: Corporations' Power Game Through Accusations of Defamation

Chapter 6: Judicial Façades: Jurisdiction as Horror Show, Puppet Theatre, and Inverted Zoo

Chapter 7: Metagaming and Fatiguing the Judiciary Through Acting in Bad Faith: Killjoy, Fool, Cheater, Spoilsport

Chapter 8: Emotionalization of the Judiciary: The Vulnerable Persona of the Judge Under a Spectacular Rule of Affect

Chapter 9: States and Corporations as Legal Figments – or Absurd Theatre: Urgenda, Greenpeace, and Milieudefensie v the Dutch State and Shell

Chapter 10: Postscript: Jurisdiction Spectacularized and the Need for a Revolution

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