Why Eyes? Cautionary Tales from Law’s Blindfolded Justice1All rights reserved. November 2015. Thanks are due to Aaron Kesselheim for inviting us to write for this volume; to the Yale Law Library, Fred Shapiro, and Michael Widener; to Allison Tait, who joined us in much of this research, to Reva Siegel for many discussions of constitutional theory; to Ruth Weisberg, Peter Goodrich, and Valérie Hayaert for exchanges about iconography, to Benjamin Woodring and Marianna Mao for able research assistance, and to Bonnie Posick for expert editorial oversight. This chapter is related to our book, from which we draw several of the images provided there. See Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis, Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. In addition, parts of this discussion are derived from our essay, Epistemological Doubt and Visual Puzzles of Sight, Knowledge, and Judgment: Reflections on Clear-Sighted and Blindfolded Justices. In: P. Goodrich & V. Hayaert (Eds.), Genealogies of Legal Vision. Routledge: 2015.