Law and Popular Culture

  • Law and Popular Culture: A Course Book
    By Michael Asimow, Shannon Mader

    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 ...

  • Law and Popular Culture: Text, Notes, and Questions
    By David Ray Papke

    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 ...

  • Law and Popular Culture: Text, Notes, and Questions
    By David Ray Papke, Christine A. Corcos, Melissa Cole Essig

    the contrary, in rejecting the notion that Atticus Finch is a role model for today's lawyers, here is what I said: “Don't misunderstand. I'm not saying that I would present as role models those truly admirable lawyers who, ...

  • Law and Popular Culture
    By Michael D. A. Freeman

    This is a collection of essays which explores the ways in which law interacts with and is represented in popular culture. In common with earlier volumes in the Current Legal...

  • Law and Popular Culture: International Perspectives
    By Michael Asimow, Kathryn Brown, David Papke

    Robert B. Parker, Taming a Sea-Horse (New York: Dell, 1987f), 271–2. Emerson, “Self Reliance,” 188 and 187. Lawrence Buell, Emerson (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press, 2003), 64. For a detailed examination of Emerson's ...

  • Law and Popular Culture: A Course Book
    By Michael Asimow, Jessica Silbey

    Both law and popular culture pervade our lives. Movies and television shape our perception of law and change how players in the legal system behave. This Book explores the interface between these enormously important subjects.

  • Law and Popular Culture: Text, Notes, and Questions
    By Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Sean O'Brien, Christine Corcos

    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.

  • Law and Popular Culture: A Course Book (2nd Edition)
    By Michael Asimow, Shannon Mader

    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.