Serving Cases On a Plate
posted by Dave Hoffman
Via Chris Colin comes a report of a recently graduated lawyer/artist from HLS, José Klein. As Colin relates the story, Jose decided to transfer magic marker depictions of cases that engaged him to dinner ware (through Make-A-Plate). He felt that “[t]hese cases become vehicles for rules to be established. But we lose sight of what’s profoundly human in them, and they ultimately become abstractions . . . I think the plates are an attempt to engage the drama or the humanity, not just the rule. It’s more soulful than the study of these rules.” The plate to the right, for example, depicts BMW v. Gore.
Given reader interest in Supreme Court bobble-head dolls, and other artistic representations of pressing legal problems, it might be worth checking out the whole collection.
June 9, 2008 at 10:47 am
Posted in: Weird
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