Law and the Media in Luke Delaney’s <i>The Jackdaw</i>

Abstract Law’s stories and images migrate from the courtroom to the filmic and television screen, as well as to the screen of the mass media. Our visual legal imagination at the same time adjust and is determined by the demands and the modalities of new communication technologies. Within this context, Luke Delaney’s novel The Jackdaw (2015) presents a criminal trial as a completely mediatized spectacle, thus positing a new sublimity of the law that puts into question the legal institution itself and brings to the surface the constitution of a distorted digital body politic.