Law in Popular Culture

Holy Smokes, Batman! Law in Comics Featured in New Exhibit

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Esquire Comics site screen shot.

Lawyers often identify with superheroes, but sometimes don’t get much validation for it. However the library at Yale Law School offers a bit of that, with the new exhibition “Superheroes in Court: Lawyers, Law and Comic Books.”

Mark S. Zaid, a Washington, D.C., lawyer and comic book collector, organized the exhibition, which today got a mention in the New York Times Arts Beat blog. It features illustrations of Superman on the witness stand being accused of murder (falsely, of course) and a handcuffed Batman and Robin, facing a jury full of Jokers, literally.

Zaid, a litigator who often represents government employees on national securities matters, also owns Esquire Comics, a Bethesda, Md., business that focuses on high-end comic books. His homepage features the scales of justice, with various superheroes riding the scales.

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