Trial by Cinema: Aesthetics, Evidence, and Legal Imagination

This panel invites 250-word abstracts exploring cinema as a site where law, evidence, justice, and legal consciousness are imagined, contested, and transformed across historical, cultural, and technological contexts. Interdisciplinary approaches are especially welcome.

Deadline for submissions: Monday, August 31, 2026

Belinda Qian He, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (qianh11@illinois.edu ) Esther Tian Li, Korea University (esthertianli@gmail.com )