Justice in Panels
Exploring Law’s Limits and Moral Tensions through Graphic Narratives
Abstract
This article explores the use of comics and graphic narratives as tools for teaching and studying constitutional law, with particular attention to their capacity to illuminate the “dark side” of legality. The contribution argues that graphic narratives provide a critical laboratory for reflecting on legal dysfunctions, the limits of legal regulation, and the ways in which legal norms may reproduce exclusion and discrimination. Through their visual and narrative language, comics are especially effective in dramatizing the instability and ambiguity of legality, enabling students to confront the tension between formal legality and substantive justice in a more immediate and engaging manner than conventional doctrinal approaches often allow.
Keywords: constitutional law; legal education; comics and law; graphic narratives; legal dysfunctions.
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