Bibliograph

Cultural legal studies, law's popular cultures and the metamorphosis of law, edited by Cassandra Sharp and Marett Leiboff

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Label

Cultural legal studies, law's popular cultures and the metamorphosis of law, edited by Cassandra Sharp and Marett Leiboff

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cultural legal studies

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

914472340

Responsibility statement

edited by Cassandra Sharp and Marett Leiboff

Series statement

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Sub title

law's popular cultures and the metamorphosis of law

Summary

"What can popular cultures offer law, as a basis for critical practice? This introduction to the 'cultural legal studies' movement takes up this question as it presents a new encounter with the 'cultural turn' in law and legal theory. Moving beyond the 'law ands' (literature, humanities, culture, film) on which it is based, cultural legal studies aims to metamorphose law and the legalities that underpin its popular imaginary. To this end, the collection brings together leading scholars from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Presenting a long-overdue identification and framing of its scope, methodologies and practice, and 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. In this respect, contributors to the collection deploy differentiated modes of cultural legal studies practice, adopting diverse philosophical, disciplinary, methodological and theoretical approaches and subjects of examination. The collection draws on this mix of diversity and homogeneity to argue that we must take seriously an interrogation of law as culture- that is, not asking how a text 'represents'law, but how the representational nature of both law and culture intersect: in short, how the 'juridical' becomes visible in various cultural forms and their technological manifestations, and so how law's popular cultures actively metamorphose law. "--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

pt. 1. Cultural legal studies : the urgency of method and story -- pt. 2. Cultural legal studies as legal storytelling -- pt. 3. Law's technologies and cultural legal studies -- pt. 4. Cultural legal studies as jurisprudence

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