Ladd on Judicial Ritualization

Kevin Ladd (Lycee Michel De Montaigne) has posted  Grimaces Et Lèvres Pincées: Remarques Sur La Ritualisation Judiciaire (Pascal, Wittgenstein) (Grimaces and Pursed Lips: Remarks on the Judicial Ritualization – Pascal, Wittgenstein) (Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2018) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: This paper aims at clarifying our use of a metaphor family often surrounding the trial (ritualization, dramatization, performance, religious-type ceremony), and supports the idea that the notion of a judicial ritualization expresses the praiseworthy intention to allow time and occasions to the penal international justice – such occasions having no predetermined goal, however, though they make it possible for a variety of emotions to manifest themselves. This article is grounded on a comparison between Pascal's Pensées (Thoughts) and Lettres provinciales (Provincial letters) on the one hand, and…

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