Law and the Humanities
Title | Law and the Humanities PDF eBook |
Author | Austin Sarat |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 553 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0521899052 |
A review and analysis of existing scholarship on the different national traditions and on the various modes and subjects of law and humanities.
The Routledge Research Companion to Law and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century America
Title | The Routledge Research Companion to Law and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century America PDF eBook |
Author | Nan Goodman |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 395 |
Release | 2017-05-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317042972 |
Nineteenth-century America witnessed some of the most important and fruitful areas of intersection between the law and humanities, as people began to realize that the law, formerly confined to courts and lawyers, might also find expression in a variety of ostensibly non-legal areas such as painting, poetry, fiction, and sculpture. Bringing together leading researchers from law schools and humanities departments, this Companion touches on regulatory, statutory, and common law in nineteenth-century America and encompasses judges, lawyers, legislators, litigants, and the institutions they inhabited (courts, firms, prisons). It will serve as a reference for specific information on a variety of law- and humanities-related topics as well as a guide to understanding how the two disciplines developed in tandem in the long nineteenth century.
Reading the Legal Case
Title | Reading the Legal Case PDF eBook |
Author | Marco Wan |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0415673542 |
The Legal Case: Cross-Currents in Law and the Humanitiesre-examines the seemingly familiar notion of a ‘legal case’ by exploring the histories, practices, conventions and rhetoric of ‘case law’. The doctrine of stare decisis, whereby courts are bound by precedent cases, underpins legal reasoning in the common law world. At the same time, the legal case is itself a product of institutional and linguistic practices, and raises broader questions about the foundations and boundaries of law. The idea of the ‘case’ as an ordered, closed narrative with a determinate outcome is, for example, integral to medical, psychoanalytic, as well as forensic discourses; whilst the notion of the ‘strange case’ is a popular one in the English fiction of the late nineteenth century. What is at stake in the attempt to categorise or define a situation as a legal case? Is the notion of binding precedent in ‘case law’ really distinctive to the common law? And if so, why? What can the concept of a ‘case’ in other disciplines and discourses tell us about how it operates in law? With contributions from legal philosophers, legal historians, literary critics, and linguists, this book moves beyond the jurisprudential discussion of the nature and authority of the legal case, as it draws on insights from philosophy, m linguistics, narratology, drama, and film.
The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Stern |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 921 |
Release | 2020-01-16 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0190695625 |
How does materiality matter to legal scholarship? What can affect studies offer to legal scholars? What are the connections among visual studies, art history, and the knowledge and experience of law? What can the disciplines of book history, digital humanities, performance studies, disability studies, and post-colonial studies contribute to contemporary and historical understandings of law? These are only some of the important questions addressed in this wide-ranging collection of law and humanities scholarship. Collecting 45 new essays by leading international scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities showcases the work of law and humanities across disciplines, addressing methods, concepts and themes, genres, and areas of the law. The essays explore under-researched domains such as comics, videos, police files, form contracts, and paratexts, and shed new light on traditional topics, such as free speech, intellectual property, international law, indigenous peoples, immigration, evidence, and human rights. The Handbook provides an exciting new agenda for scholarship in law and humanities, and will be essential reading for anyone interested in the intersections of law and humanistic inquiry.
Comparative Methods in Law, Humanities and Social Sciences
Title | Comparative Methods in Law, Humanities and Social Sciences PDF eBook |
Author | Adams, Maurice |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2021-11-19 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1802201467 |
This cutting-edge book facilitates debate amongst scholars in law, humanities and social sciences, where comparative methodology is far less well anchored in most areas compared to other research methods. It posits that these are disciplines in which comparative research is not simply a bonus, but is of the essence.
Decoding International Law
Title | Decoding International Law PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Tiefenbrun |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 589 |
Release | 2010-04-14 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0199749566 |
Violations of international law and human rights laws are the plague of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Violence and the flagrant violation of human rights have a naturally dramatic effect that inspires writers, film makers, artists, philosophers, historians, and legal scholars to represent these horrors in their work. In Decoding International Law: Semiotics and the Humanities, Professor Tiefenbrun helps readers understand international law as represented indirectly in the humanities.
History of Law and Other Humanities.Views of the legal world across the time
Title | History of Law and Other Humanities.Views of the legal world across the time PDF eBook |
Author | Valerio Massimo Minale |
Publisher | Dykinson S.L. |
Pages | 596 |
Release | 2019-07-09 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 8413243084 |
The collection of essays presented here examines the links forged through the ages between the realm of law and the expressions of the humanistic culture.We collected thirty-five essays by international scholars and organized them into sections of ten chapters based around ten different themes. Two main perspectives emerged: in some articles the topic relates to the conventional approach of law and/in humanities (iconography, literature, architecture, cinema, music), other articles are about more traditional connections between fields of knowledge (in particular, philosophy, political experiences, didactics).We decided not to confine authors to one particular methodological framework, preferring instead to promote historiographical openness. Our intention was to create a patchwork of different approaches, with each article drawing on a different area of culture to provide a new angle to the history being told. The variety of authorial nationalities gives the collection a multicultural character and the breadth of the chronological period it deals with from antiquity to the contemporary age adds further depth of insight.As the element that unites the collection is historiographical interpretation, we wanted to bring to the fore its historical depth. Thus for every chapter we organized the articles in chronological order according to the historical context covered.Looking at the final outcome, it was interesting to learn that more often than not the connection between law and humanities is not simply a relation between a specific branch of the law and a single field of the humanities, but rather a relation that could be developed in many directions at once, involving different fields of knowledge, and of arts and popular culture.We are grateful to Luigi Lacchè for his contribution to this collection. His essay outlines the coordinates of the law and humanities world, laying out the instruments necessary for an understanding of the origins of a complex methodology and the different approaches that exist within it.This project is the result of discussions that took place during the XXIII Forum of the Association of Young Legal Historians held in Naples in the spring of 2017. The book was made possible thanks to the advice and support of Cristina Vano.The Editors