Readership: Scholars of law and sociology interested in the interaction between law and popular culture.
Edited by Michael Freeman, Professor of English Law, University College London
PART I: INTRODUCTORY THEMES 1: Peter ROBSON: Law And Film Studies - Autonomy and Theory 2: Desmond MANDERSON: Where The Wild Things Really Are: Children's Literature And The Law 3: David SEYMOUR: The Absence of Contradiction And The Contradiction of Absence: Law, Ethics And The Holocaust PART II: REEL JUSTICE 4: Richard SHERWIN: Law's Enchantment: The Cinematic Jurisprudence of Krzystztof Kieslowski 5: Francis M. NEVINS: When Celluloid Lawyers Started To Speak: Exploring Juriscinema's First Golden Age 6: Paul BERGMAN: "Emergency!" Send A TV Show To Rescue Paramedic Services! 7: Stefan MACHURA: Procedural Unfairness In Real and Film Trials. Why Do Audiences Understand Stories Placed In Foreign Legal Systems? 8: Matthias KUZINA: Military Justice In American Film And Television Drama: Starting Points For Ideological Criticism 9: Lynda NEAD: Courtroom Sketching: Reflections On History, Law And The Image 10: John DENVIR: What Movies Can Teach Law Students PART III: THE NOVEL 11: Marlene TROMP: Popular Fiction And Domestic law: East Lynne, Justice, And The "Ordeal Of The Undecidable" 12: Melanie WILLIAMS: Law's Agent: Cultivated Citizen Or Popular Savage? The Crash Of The Moral Mirror 13: Leslie J. MORAN: Law's Diabolical Romance: Reflections On A New Jurisprudence Of The Sublime 14: David Ray PAPKE: Re-Imagining The Practice Of Law: Popular Twentieth-Century Fiction By American Lawyer-Authors 15: Adam GEAREY: The Materiality Of Symbols: J G Ballard And Jurisprudence: Law, Image, Reproduction 16: Claire VALIER: L'Oeuil qui Pense. The Emotive As Grounds For The Pensive In Phenomenological Reflection PART IV: MUSIC 17: Milner S BALL: Doing Time And Doing It In Style 18: Thilo TETZLAFF: Why Law Needs Pop - Global Law And Global Music PART V: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 19: Nicole RAFTER: Badfellas: Movie Psychos, Popular Culture, And Law 20: Roberta M HARDING: Reel Violence: Popular Culture And Concerns About Capital Punishment In Contemporary American Society 21: Lawrence M FRIEDMAN: Public And Private Eyes 22: Michael ROBERTSON: Seeing Blind Spots: Corporate Misconduct In Film And Law 23: Stuart WEINSTEIN: Repressed Memory Revisited: Popular Culture's Impact On The Law - Psychotherapy Debate 24: Anne S Y CHEUNG: What Law Cannot Give: "From The Queen To The Chief Executive" PART VI: LAW, SEXUALITY AND THE POPULAR CULTURE 25: Jenni MILLBANK: It's About This: Lesbians, Prison, Desire 26: Didi HERMAN: "Juliet And Juliet Would Be More My Cup Of Tea": Sexuality, Law And Popular Culture PART VII: HUMAN RIGHTS 27: Christian DELAGE: Image As To Evidence And Mediation: The Experience Of The Nuremberg Trials 28: Carolyn Patty BLUM: Film, Culture and Accountability For Human Rights Abuses 29: Wae Chee DIMOCK: Science Fiction As A World Tribunal PART VIII: SOME OTHER CULTURAL PHENOMENA 30: Malcolm VOYCE: Neoliberalism, Shopping Malls and The End of "Property"? 31: Rex J AHDAR: "Do You Want Fries With That?" The Franchise As a Cultural And Legal Phenomenon PART 1X: LAW, LAWYERING AND THE POPULAR CULTURE 32: Carrie MENKEL-MEADOW: Legal Negotiation In Popular Culture: What Are We Bargaining For? 33: Michael ASIMOW: Popular Culture And The American Adversarial Ideology 34: Steve GREENFIELD and Guy OSBORN: The Double Meaning Of Law: Does It Matter If Film Lawyers Are Unethical? 35: Philip N MEYER: Adaptation: What Post-Conviction Relief Practitioners In Death Penalty Cases Might Learn From Popular Storytellers About Narrative Persuasion 36: David A BLACK: Narrative Determination And The Figure Of The Judge
