This collection explores the stakes, risks and opportunities invoked in opening and exploring law s archive and re-examining law s evidence. It draws together work exploring how evidence is used or mis-used during the legal process, and re-used after the law s work has concluded by engaging with ethical, aesthetic or emotional dimensions of using law s evidence. Within socio-legal discourse, the move towards open justice has emerged concurrently with a much broader cultural sensibility, one that has been called the "archival turn" (Ann Laura Stoler), the "archival impulse" (Hal Foster) and...