Cultural Legal Studies: Law's Popular Cultures and the Metamorphosis of Law

ISBN-13: 9780815382201 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str.

Opis

What can popular cultures offer law, as a basis for critical practice? This introduction to the ‘cultural legal studies’ presents a new encounter with the ‘cultural turn’ in law and legal theory. The collection brings together leading scholars from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States to present a long-overdue identification and framing of its scope, methodologies and practice. Drawing on three different modes of cultural legal studies – storytelling, technology and jurisprudence – the collection showcases the intersectional practices of cultural legal studies and law in its popular cultural mode.

Recenzje

"Contributors to Sharp and Leiboff’s collection examine how the techniques and practices of cultural legal studies can be used to metamorphose law and the legalities that underpin its popular imaginary. By drawing on three different modes of cultural legal studies—storytelling, technology, and jurisprudence—the collection seeks to showcase the intersectional practices of cultural legal studies, and law in its popular cultural mode."
Law and Social Inquiry Journal

Spis treści

PART I: Cultural Legal Studies – The Urgency of Method and Story  1. Cultural Legal Studies and Law’s Popular Cultures, Marett Leiboff & Cassandra Sharp  2. Cultural Legal Studies as Law’s Extroversion, Marett Leiboff  3. Finding Stories of Justice in the Art of Conversation: Ethnography in Cultural Legal Studies, Cassandra Sharp  PART II: Cultural Legal Studies as Legal Storytelling  4. Interventions into the Feeling of Popular Justice: Australia’s Stolen Generations, the Problem of Sentimentality, and Re-Encountering the Testimonial Form, Honni Van Rijswijk  5. Border Crossings: The Transnational Career of the Television Crime Drama, Sue Turnbull  6. Theatre and the Law in the 21^st Century, Peter Robson  PART III: Law’s Technologies and Cultural Legal Studies  7. Picturing Justice in a Fraught Legal Arena: Fetus, Phantoms and Mandatory Ultrasounds, Jessica Silbey  8. Peeping: Open Justice and Law’s Voyeurs, Katherine Biber  9. Irony as Method: Reframing Photographs in Cultural Legal Studies, Karen Crawley  10. Bodies, Cinema, Sovereignty: Using Visual Culture Methodologies to Think About Other Ways that Law Might Work, Kirsty Duncanson  PART IV: Cultural Legal Studies as Jurisprudence  11. Popular Culture’s Lex Vampirica: The Law of the Undead in True Blood, the Twilight Saga and The Passage, William Macneil  12. Reading the Law Made Strange: Cultural Legal Studies, Theology and Speculative Fiction, Timothy D Peters  13. Republicanism Meets (Dystopian) Faërie: Harry Potter and the Institutional Disaster, Luis Gómez Romero

O autorze

Cassandra Sharp's research draws on a range of disciplinary methods to empirically explore individual responses to law. Her focus is the use of popular stories by individuals in challenging and constructing legal meaning and identity. She is a member of the Legal Intersections Research Centre (LIRC) at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Marett Leiboff is a cultural legal studies and law and humanities scholar who is working on a monograph that explores theatrical jurisprudence. Her scholarship is grounded in her pre-law background in academic theatre studies. Marett is a member of the Legal Intersections Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Australia.