ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the spectre that haunts from behind the mask. It focuses on the haunting of the legal subject as it faces the law itself. The chapter analyzes the judicial spectre depicted in the graphic novel Adamtine, developing the conceptualisation of the spectre to highlight how the legal subject is haunted by the absent space of legal authority. It considers the epistemological connotations of law's spectrality, with the spectre always implying an other that watches, and thus other possible frames of knowing. The legal subject is caught between two spectral fronts: it is haunted by the living humanity that created it and that its rational structures seek to quell and categorise; it is also haunted by the legal authority that constitutes it as a watcher that judges. The legal subject is not only haunted by that which the mask of persona cannot contain, but also by the spectre of law it remains before – by the watcher that judges.
