Visualising Justice: Teaching Sexual Violence and Law Through Engagement with Artwork

Nikki Godden-Rasul (as a legal scholar), Tina Sikka (as an arts and cultures scholar) and Jayne Jackson (an independent empowerment photographer, activist and PhD researcher) reflect on the use of Jackson’s photographic artwork Asking For It, which challenges sexual violence victim blaming, in a Law and Gender LLB module. In particular, they explore the role art plays in students’ learning, and its potential to challenge the supposed objectivity, neutrality and disembodied rationality of law, by bringing visual culture and emotions into the frame.