TY - UNPB
T1 - The Deepest Sense
T2 - Revitalizing Links Between Law and Touch
AU - LeBaron, Michelle
PY - 2024/10/25
Y1 - 2024/10/25
N2 - This article explores relations between law and touch from an interdisciplinary perspective, outlining how and why touch and physical senses have been overlooked in legal worlds with negative results. A series of vignettes illustrate the importance of incorporating touch-sensitive approaches into legal pedagogy and dispute resolution. Were touch to be seen as a resource in the relational world of the law, lawyer effectiveness and party procedural satisfaction would increase, as would student engagement. Finally, the importance of aesthetic dimensions of physical perception and touch to dispute engagement are examined, along with ways to cultivate proprioception and develop useful proxy touch repertoires.
AB - This article explores relations between law and touch from an interdisciplinary perspective, outlining how and why touch and physical senses have been overlooked in legal worlds with negative results. A series of vignettes illustrate the importance of incorporating touch-sensitive approaches into legal pedagogy and dispute resolution. Were touch to be seen as a resource in the relational world of the law, lawyer effectiveness and party procedural satisfaction would increase, as would student engagement. Finally, the importance of aesthetic dimensions of physical perception and touch to dispute engagement are examined, along with ways to cultivate proprioception and develop useful proxy touch repertoires.
U2 - 10.2139/ssrn.4998692
DO - 10.2139/ssrn.4998692
M3 - Working paper
T3 - Non Liquiet [The Westminster Online Working Papers]
BT - The Deepest Sense
ER -