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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Art of Justice: The Judges Perspective by Ruth Herz
This book consists of a unique and intriguing collection of drawings of courtroom scenes. Entering the courtroom wearing his robe Judge Pierre Cavellat literally had a secret up his sleeve. Hidden in it were pens and pencils which he used to sketch the scenes he observed from his bench during a trial. Throughout a 40 year judicial career in one of Frances more important regional appellate courts Cavellat produced hundreds of revealing drawings and paintings of court scenes depicting the proceedings as well as the main actors: the prosecutors defence counsel his fellow judges the defendants witnesses policemen the general public as well as the courtroom itself and its architecture. The resulting vivid and uncensored impressions give an unprecedented insight into how a judge perceives his profession and the institution of justice as a whole. The author a judge herself interprets the images through the lens of her own judicial experience exploring how judges think and act and how their thinking is constructed through their education professional training gender and class.