Legal visualization

The choice of the king. Above: the three spiritual princes in the election, they point to the king. Middle: The Count Palatinate near the Rhine hands over a golden bowl as a stewardess, behind it the Duke of Saxony with the marshal's baton and the Margrave of Brandenburg, who brings a bowl of warm water as a chamberlain. Below: the new king before the greats of the empire (Heidelberger Sachsenspiegel, around 1300)

With legal visualization is illustrative of legal norms and legal contexts referred. It is a type of information design in that it uses the possibilities of visual communication to convey information, for example in legal didactics .

Early examples are the elaborately illustrated medieval law books such as the Sachsenspiegel .

See also

• Process visualization
• Legal iconography

Web links

• Leonie von Manteuffel : The canned repetitor , FAZ.net from June 18, 2008
• Project visual legal communication at the University of Bochum
• Legal visualization department of the Center for Legal History Research at the University of Zurich
• Legal iconographic database at the University of Graz
• Visuelle Jurisprudenz Journal and blog about visualization in jurisprudence
• Rechtsvisualisierung.org [1]