Student-Initiated Alternative Law Journal Covering Aspects of Audiovisual Law: "The Yale Visual Law Project"

Colette R. Brunschwig

Recently, I discovered “The Yale Visual Law Project.”

This project “is a student-initiated alternative law journal that aims to produce smart, engaging documentaries on cutting-edge legal issues. Launched at the Yale Law School in the 2010-11 academic year, the Project runs a yearlong practicum where law students collaborate with skilled professionals to research, write, direct, and produce short documentaries. Our documentaries will be of high production value, and they will tackle the most daunting legal issues of our time. In our pilot year, we are producing a short film series examining the community harms of racial profiling. The film will approach the theme of racial profiling and the law through the contexts of immigration policy, criminal law enforcement and national security policy. We are a student initiative of the Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, supervised by Professor Jack Balkin [see http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/JBalkin.htm] and Dean Robert Post [see http://www.law.yale.edu/RPost.htm].” (see http://visuallawproject.wordpress.com/about/)

This project has different purposes. For instance, it “aims to bring legal knowledge and debate directly to public audiences, injecting compelling documentary films into public debate.” Furthermore, it aims at innovating the law: “The Project approaches the cinematic arts not as a merely representative medium but as an uncharted frontier for knowledge production in the legal field. Our films will meet the rigors of legal scholarship even as they help transform and expand the contours of legal knowledge.” (see http://visuallawproject.wordpress.com/about/)

Considering this cutting-edge initiative, I would like to encourage professors and students from other law schools to start similar or other projects relating to audio-visual law.

In this context, Tele-Jura in Germany (see http://www.telejura.de/) needs to be mentioned, since its innovative and courageous team produces legal audiovisuals for educational purposes. To my knowledge, with great success among law students.

All websites were last accessed on November 25, 2010.

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