Law and the Image

Law and the Image

Author: Costas Douzinas

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1999-08

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780226569536

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Discussing the diverse relationships between law and the artistic image, this book includes coverage of the history of the relationship between art and law, and the ways in which the visual is made subject to the force of the law.


Law and the Image

Law and the Image

Author: Costas Douzinas

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1999-06

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780226569543

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Discussing the diverse relationships between law and the artistic image, this book includes coverage of the history of the relationship between art and law, and the ways in which the visual is made subject to the force of the law.


Judging the Image

Judging the Image

Author: Alison Young

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 041530184X

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This book extends the cultural turn in legal and criminological studies by interrogating our responses to the image. It provides a space to think through problems of ethics, social authority and the legal imagination.


The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities

The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities

Author: Simon Stern

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 921

ISBN-13: 0190695625

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How might law matter to the humanities? How might the humanities matter to law? In its approach to both of these questions, The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities shows how rich a resource the law is for humanistic study, as well as how and why the humanities are vital for understanding law. Tackling questions of method, key themes and concepts, and a variety of genres and areas of the law, this collection of essays by leading scholars from a variety of disciplines illuminates new questions and articulates an exciting new agenda for scholarship in law and humanities.


No Law

No Law

Author: David L. Lange

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2008-10-27

Total Pages: 613

ISBN-13: 0804763275

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The original text of the Constitution grants Congress the power to create a regime of intellectual property protection. The first amendment, however, prohibits Congress from enacting any law that abridges the freedoms of speech and of the press. While many have long noted the tension between these provisions, recent legal and cultural developments have transformed mere tension into conflict. No Law offers a new way to approach these debates. In eloquent and passionate style, Lange and Powell argue that the First Amendment imposes absolute limits upon claims of exclusivity in intellectual property and expression, and strips Congress of the power to restrict personal thought and free expression in the name of intellectual property rights. Though the First Amendment does not repeal the Constitutional intellectual property clause in its entirety, copyright, patent, and trademark law cannot constitutionally license the private commodification of the public domain. The authors claim that while the exclusive rights currently reflected in intellectual property are not in truth needed to encourage intellectual productivity, they develop a compelling solution for how Congress, even within the limits imposed by an absolute First Amendment, can still regulate incentives for intellectual creations. Those interested in the impact copyright doctrines have on freedom of expression in the U.S. and the theoretical and practical aspects of intellectual property law will want to take a closer look at this bracing, resonant work.


The Image of Law

The Image of Law

Author: Alexandre Lefebvre

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0804759847

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The Image of Law is the first book to examine law through the work of Gilles Deleuze, activating his thought within problems of jurisprudence and developing a concept of judgment that acknowledges its inherently creative capacity.


Islam and the Rule of Justice

Islam and the Rule of Justice

Author: Lawrence Rosen

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2018-03-13

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 022651174X

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In the West, we tend to think of Islamic law as an arcane and rigid legal system, bound by formulaic texts yet suffused by unfettered discretion. While judges may indeed refer to passages in the classical texts or have recourse to their own orientations, images of binding doctrine and unbounded choice do not reflect the full reality of the Islamic law in its everyday practice. Whether in the Arabic-speaking world, the Muslim portions of South and Southeast Asia, or the countries to which many Muslims have migrated, Islamic law works is readily misunderstood if the local cultures in which it is embedded are not taken into account. With Islam and the Rule of Justice, Lawrence Rosen analyzes a number of these misperceptions. Drawing on specific cases, he explores the application of Islamic law to the treatment of women (who win most of their cases), the relations between Muslims and Jews (which frequently involve close personal and financial ties), and the structure of widespread corruption (which played a key role in prompting the Arab Spring). From these case studie the role of informal mechanisms in the resolution of local disputes. The author also provides a close reading of the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, who was charged in an American court with helping to carry out the 9/11 attacks, using insights into how Islamic justice works to explain the defendant’s actions during the trial. The book closes with an examination of how Islamic cultural concepts may come to bear on the constitutional structure and legal reforms many Muslim countries have been undertaking.


Judging the Image

Judging the Image

Author: Alison Young

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1134416687

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This book extends the cultural turn in legal and criminological studies by interrogating our responses to the image. It provides a space to think through problems of ethics, social authority and the legal imagination.


Law in the Courts of Love

Law in the Courts of Love

Author: Peter Goodrich

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1134925794

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In the wake of current criticisms of the legal profession, Peter Goodrich presents us with a radical alternative vision of the law. He examines past legal systems offering up the possibility of a more humane system.