Writer.

Lecturer.

Lawyer.

Author of Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque, When Law Goes Pop, and A Cultural History of Law in the Modern Age.

“Sherwin is perhaps the world’s leading scholar of the visual life of law”

— Austin Sarat, Amherst College

About Richard Sherwin

Richard Sherwin is an expert on the multiple connections that link law and culture, focusing in particular on legal storytelling, visual communication, and the legitimation of law’s exercise of state power. Professor Sherwin gained nationwide attention with his well-received book, When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line between Law and Popular Culture, which explores the two-way street between law and popular culture. His follow up volume, Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque: Arabesques and Entanglements, examines the interpenetration of law and the visual throughout the history of modern culture up through the current era, which he calls the age of the digital baroque. His edited volumes include Law, Culture and Visual StudiesPopular Culture and Law, and A Cultural History of Law in the Modern Age.