This handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the cutting-edge field of cultural legal studies.
This handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the cutting-edge field of cultural legal studies.
Cultural legal studies is at the forefront of the legal discipline, questioning not only doctrine or social context, but how the concerns of legality are distributed and encountered through a range of material forms. Growing out of the interdisciplinary turn in critical legal studies and jurisprudence that took place in the latter quarter of the 20th century, cultural legal studies exists at the intersection of a range of traditional disciplinary areas: legal studies, cultural studies, literary studies, jurisprudence, media studies, critical theory, history, and philosophy. It is an area of study that is characterised by an expanded or open-ended conception of what counts as a legal source, and that is concerned with questions of authority, legitimacy, and interpretation across a wide range of cultural artefacts. Including a mixture of established and new authors in the area, this handbook brings together a complex set of perspectives that are representative of the current field, but which also address its methods, assumptions, limitations, and possible futures.
Establishing the significance of the cultural for understanding law, as well as its importance as a potential site for justice, community, and sociality in the world today, this handbook is a key reference point both for those working in the cultural legal context in legal theory, law and literature, law and film/television, law and aesthetics, cultural studies, and the humanities generally as well as others interested in the interactions between authority, culture, and meaning.
1. Cultural Legal Studies: Methodologies of Reflexive Attunement Thomas
Giddens, Karen Crawley and Timothy D Peters Part I: Methods or Orientations
2. Imagination Mark Antaki and Kirsten Anker
3. Its Law: Towards a Form of
the Cultural Legal Dale Mitchell
4. Law and the Unconscious Daniel Hourigan
5. It is Not a Question of Drawing the Contours, but what Escapes the
Contour: Aesthetics, Provisionality, Finitude Karin van Marle
6. Testify!
Reflections on Cultural Legal Studies and Indigenous Legal Orders Rebecca
Johnson
7. The Aesthetics of Sovereignty Daniel Matthews
8. Jurisography: A
Report on Cultural Legal Study, Australia Ann Genovese and Shaun McVeigh Part
II: Readings
9. Law and Horror Penny Crofts
10. Prohibition, Contract and
Nomoi for the Future in Star Trek: Picard Kieran Tranter
11. The Use of
Superheroes for Cultural Legal Studies: Batmans Two Bodies and the Political
Theology of the Corporate Image Timothy D Peters
12. Cultural Legalities of
Social Media Cassandra Sharp
13. Scribbling on the Moon: The Melancholia of
Lunar Nullius Thomas Giddens
14. Law, Poetry and the Voice of Nature Mariėlle
Matthee
15. The Parallel Lives of Legal Persons and Video Game Avatars Ashley
Pearson
16. Alien Nation: Redefining the Alien in Law and Science Fiction
Susan Bird and Jo Bird Part III: Performance and Performative Legalities
17.
The Working of Time: Transitional Justice and Body Memory in Rithy Panhs
Cinema Maria Elander
18. Staging the Judicial Figure: The Parallels between
Legal and Operatic Interpreters Ryan Kernaghan
19. Pluralising Judicial
Authority: The Double-Voiced Opinion Julen Etxabe
20. A Legal Frame-work of
Urban Modernity: The Court of Criminal Appeals, Chicago (1927) Style Leslie H
Abramson
21. The Evidence of Juridical Documentaries Mónica López Lerma
22.
Sovereign Signatures: Australian First Nations Petitions Trish Luker
23.
Doing Theatrical Jurisprudence Marett Leiboff Part IV: Cinematic Legalities
24. Cinelegal Techniques Suzanne Bouclin
25. Picturing the Judiciary, Telling
the Story of the Judge: The Discursivity and Narrativity of Judicial and
Legal Culture in 21st Century Chinese Film Agnes S Schick-Chen
26. The Myth
of the Big, Bad Narco: Cinematic Jurisprudence and U.S-Mexican Drug Wars Luis
Gómez Romero
27. Film and the Re-imagination of Kinship: Graham Kolbeinss
Queer Japan (2019) Marco Wan
28. Tanyas Last Resort: On Law, Justice and
Enclosure Emma Patchett
29. Can I Have your Hands? The Use of Bodies in the
Horror Genre and Refugee Law Justine Poon
30. Terror Nullius (2018): Queering
the Australian Colonial Imaginary Karen Crawley and Kim Weinert
Karen Crawley is Senior Lecturer at Griffith Law School, Brisbane, Australia.
Thomas Giddens is Chair of Jurisprudence at Dundee Law School, Dundee, UK.
Timothy D Peters is Associate Professor of Law at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.
