This page is dedicated to sharing various explorations in sensori-legal studies written by members of the Law and the Senses research team, certain of their students (both past and present), and invited guests.
We call these essays “probes,” following Marshall McLuhan’s use of this term in Laws of Media, and elsewhere.
All of the views and opinions expressed in the following probes are exclusively those of their respective authors.
Robot Rights: Sentience as a Basis for Moral Rights
By Alexandra Champagne
Psychological “Data”: Android as Autistic Metaphor
By Casey Broughton
“Cripping” the Commons: Tracing the Developments and Contours of the Disability Rights Movement
By Elise Mallette
Hitting the Press: The Politics of Touch in the Wapping Dispute
By Charlie Bond
By Suzy Newing
By Charlie Bond
The Sensing State, the Ghostly Will: Enforcing Agreements in Ancient Rome and Today
By Alex McPhail
In the Dock: The Impact of Courtroom Architecture on Judicial Procedure and Perceptions
By Shoshana Paget
Telehealth During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Social and Regulatory Considerations
By Danielle Maor
By Ella Leishman-Cyr
Legal Pluralism & the Art of Living Together
By Alanna Crouse
What’s in a Name?: A Comparative Analysis of Language in Anishinaabe and Canadian Law
By Olivia Huynh
The Normative Imperative of Sound
By Matthew P. Unger
Blind Faith in Visual Evidence: lie detection, fMRIs and the shift away from oral evidence
By Eva Monteiro
Cream of the Crop: Exploring the Protection of Recipes among Chefs
By Danielle Maor
Sniffing and Snarling: K-9s and the Law
By Simcha Walfish
By Eva Monteiro
Dialogic Probe on the Atmosphere of Law: A conversation between Florencia Marchetti and David Howes
By Florencia Marchetti and David Howes
Perceptual Distortions and Police Use of Force
By Simcha Walfish
A Right to Civic Duty: Jury Duty for the Deaf
By Shoshana Paget
The cyber-panopticon? Regulating the circulation of biometric data in the information society
By Ryan Yevcak
Sensing Migrants: Surveillance and Self-Surveillance in the Immigration Panopticon
By Simcha Walfish
“Guilty of Having a Fantastic Time in Jail!”: On the Touristification of Prison Experiences
By Erin E. Lynch
The Social Regulation of Sight in the Age of the Eyeball Economy
By Pauline Hoebanx
Masculinity Studies and the Senses
By John Bryans
The Legal Paradox of Linguistic Profiling
By Lily Maya Wang
“Pain and Suffering of the Requisite Intensity”: The Legal Definition of Torture
By Simcha Walfish
A Sensory Exploration of the Tsuu T’ina Court
By Lily Maya Wang
Credibility and Immediacy in Refugee Hearings
By Simcha Walfish
Hearing Voices: Malingering and the Criminal Law
By Simcha Walfish
By Ryan Yevcak
Weight Discrimination at Work: Pondering the Obesity-as-Disability Paradigm
By Simcha Walfish
Growing out of Touch: The Social and Sensory Regulation of Childhood
By Sarah-Michelle Thomas
A Lawyer and a Lady?: The Visual Aesthetics of Femininity and Professionalism in Law
By Jessye Kilburn
Unlawful Gazes: Voyeurism and Criminal Law
By Simcha Walfish
Quiet Hands: Autism, Law and the Senses
By Sarah Michelle Thomas
Sound on Trial: Rap Music & the U.S. First Amendment
By Shoshana Paget
Contesting Allegations: The Islamic Veil and Gender In/Equality
By Sarah Michelle Thomas
Undersea Noise and the Senses of Cetaceans
By Simcha Walfish
‘Til the IRB Do Us Part: The Complex Dynamics of Gustatory Evidence in Spousal Sponsorship Appeals
By Jessye Kilburn
By Ryan Yevcak
Solitary Confinement and the Senses
By Simcha Walfish
Weighed Down by the Burden of Proof: Evidence, Interoception, and Invisible Illnesses
By Jessye Kilburn
Jury Selection: Peremptory Challenges and Sensory Judgments
By Simcha Walfish
By Alexander Sculthorpe
By Olivia Khazam
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