Face-to-face , second term, 30 hours of theory.

Second term
Monday from 13:30 to 15:30 at 43 Botanique 6

French.
Literature in English may be provided.

The aim of the course is to introduce the students to the history of justice (from the Middle Ages to the present day) in the diversity of its expressions and the particular fields covered by this notion: judicial institutions, judicial personnel and legal practitioners, procedures, law...
The course aims primarily to introduce students to lesser-known and less-used sources. Historians and legal historians rely mainly, if not exclusively, on written sources, and it is clear that, especially from the 13th century onwards, there is no lack of writings to trace the history of law and justice. On the other hand, it remains rare that, in the absence of or in addition to written documents, historians turn to other sources of information or explore the material culture of law and justice.
The course will therefore focus primarily on legal and judicial iconography (and iconology), considered not as a simple illustration but as a real object of study.

For the Bachelor in Law :

For the Bachelor in History :

For the Bachelor in Information and Communication :

For the Bachelor in Philosophy :

For the Bachelor in Economics and Management :

For the Bachelor in Political Sciences: General :

For the Bachelor in Sociology and Anthropology :

None

Given the wide scope of the subject and the chronological framework, it is not intended to present an exhaustive history of justice, nor to address all the facets of judicial history.
We will emphasize the representations of justice, the images on justice as well as the image that the judicial institution intends to give of itself. Indeed, it is not enough for justice to be rendered, it is also necessary for it to share the conviction that it is. Being and appearing are indispensable to it.

The study of iconographic representations will first be apprehended within the broader perspective of "Law and the Humanities", itself an offshoot of "Cultural Studies"; i.e. a study of justice using the methods, definitions and paradigms of the social sciences. This first part will also provide a methodological framework.
In a second part, more specific questions (crimes, evidence, the figure of the judge...) will be studied starting from different cycles of images illustrating different themes and different periods.

Lectures including interactions and exchanges with the students.

Students will be asked to write a paper based on an original “image” of their choice related to the history of law and justice. This work may be supplemented by an oral exchange aimed at comparing the analyzed work with those commented on in class.

A general bibliography is provided.

Due to current artistic intellectual property rights legislation, it is not possible to make the images of films used in the course available on line, even via the intranet.