Performing Law — Peters
I will start in medias res with an incident that doesn’t appear in my book but might have: a witchcraft epidemic in Basque country in 1612.
Julie Stone Peters
Julie Stone Peters is the H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, a Global Professorial Fellow at the Queen Mary University School of Law in London, and Co-Chair of the Columbia Theatre and Performance PhD program. She also teaches at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, and has worked with Columbia’s Institute for Human Rights, Human Rights First, and the Center for Constitutional Rights. Her most recent book is Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe (Oxford UP, 2022). She has written for the Village Voice, London Review of Books, LA Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Public Books, and is currently working on a project on contemporary legal media and performance cultures.
