Houghton, Max; (2025) Prosecutorial Aesthetics: image, law and imagination at Nuremberg, 1945-1946. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).

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Abstract

This is a thesis on the story of trial as image, following its appearance in multiple registers through the design of the courtroom, in the construction of law, and of proof, to finally seek the image of the crime. How did the image take hold of and expand the legal imagination at Nuremberg? Did the trial’s images influence the Judgment and outcomes? Have any images contributed to the trial’s collective memory? Which images are not accounted for in the trial’s official visual documentary record, published as the trial ended? Which images are forgotten or have passed into obscurity? How can understanding Nuremberg as image contribute to the emergence of international criminal law? From this visual study, a narrative emerges that illustrates the role of the image in defining the complex relationship between the individual and the collective – a particular concern of law in that period, but also – then as now - a philosophical problem that is central to the human condition, one that shapes political, psychological and legal thought.

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