Some, like Paul Newman's Judge Roy Bean, blithely and unconcernedly break laws left and right. Others act only after a deep moral struggle and extensive soul searching. Does the disturbing figure of the Judge-asLawbreaker reflect our ...
This new Second Edition of Law and Popular Culture: Text, Notes, and Questions maintains the most appreciated features of the First Edition published in 2007.
I Moral dilemmas of the lawyers — Cavanaugh in the rape case tears Some of the issues in the L.A. Law pilot involve serious moral dilemmas , but the lawyers ' conduct does not violate the rules of legal ethics . For example , Cavanaugh ...
... drawings and children's doodles, maps, technical drawings, photography, and CD-ROMs: C. May op. cit. n 26, pp. ... 417, argues against what he calls a technological determinist reading of copyright development: '[C]opyright owes as ...
In this text, more than two dozen law professors from the United States, Canada, and Australia demonstrate how to integrate fiction, poetry, comic books, film, television, music, and other media through the first year curriculum ...
This volume shows how university and college professors can create an engaging environment that encourages students to take a deep approach to learning through the use of popular culture stories in law school and in criminal justice ...
The new edition has been updated with new photos and includes greater emphasis on television than in the first edition because there are so many DVDs of older TV shows now available.
Most research on law on television and in film has consisted of reading a single television program or film to describe the portrayal of various legal actors; see, for example, Asimow, Lawyers in Your Living Room!;
Drawing upon theories of critical legal pluralism and psychological theories of narrative identity, this book argues for an understanding of popular culture as legal authority, unmediated by translation into state law.
Drawing upon theories of critical legal pluralism and psychological theories of narrative identity, this book argues for an understanding of popular culture as legal authority, unmediated by translation into state law.
Sherwin, Richard. When the Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line Between Law and Popular Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Simpson, Gerry, and Hilary Charlesworth. “Objecting to Objectivity: The Radical Challenge to Legal ...