Law & LiteraturePub Date : 2021-01-06DOI: 10.1080/1535685X.2021.1872947
A. Hepburn
{"title":"BOOK REVIEW: Nicole Mansfield Wright, Defending Privilege: Rights, Status, and Legal Peril in the British Novel (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020) ISBN: 9781421433738, pp 210","authors":"A. Hepburn","doi":"10.1080/1535685X.2021.1872947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2021.1872947","url":null,"abstract":"Defending Privilege is a concisely written, cogently argued study of legal agency in British fiction published between 1750 and 1830. In their writings, Tobias Smollett, Charlotte Smith, and Walter...","PeriodicalId":368948,"journal":{"name":"Law & Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124466934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Law & LiteraturePub Date : 2021-01-05DOI: 10.1080/1535685X.2021.1847793
J. Gilbert
{"title":"Mythology of the Rule, Mythology of the Exception","authors":"J. Gilbert","doi":"10.1080/1535685X.2021.1847793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2021.1847793","url":null,"abstract":"In his book, What is Philosophy 1 ? Giorgio Agamben evokes the relationship between mythology and theory: “In philosophy, hypotheses necessarily have a mythical character, namely that they are alwa...","PeriodicalId":368948,"journal":{"name":"Law & Literature","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125317111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Law & LiteraturePub Date : 2020-12-10DOI: 10.1080/1535685X.2021.1847795
M. Mittica
{"title":"In Quest of Sense. The Way Towards an Aesthetics of Law through Law and Humanities","authors":"M. Mittica","doi":"10.1080/1535685X.2021.1847795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2021.1847795","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the context of an epistemological revolution that subverts traditional juridical science, and that places “feeling” at the center of the reflection on the homo juridicus, Aesthetics opens a path to a more complex elaboration of sense that guides human behavior. The general goal of this article is to contribute to the development of an Aesthetics of Law that uses Law and Humanities as a methodology addressed primarily to jurists to experience sense. More specifically, my first aim is to clarify the concepts of sense and form that interest us, by holding together both the rational qualities and the affective and sensory feelings of human intelligence that influence the experience of living. Moreover, I intend to highlight the link between Ethics and Aesthetics and between feeling and law, to approach legal norm as an aesthetic object, as a form open to the quest for sense, where the quest for sense is a search for justice and the common good. Finally, I propose an exercise of Law and Humanities, imagining two encounters experienced in front of the Annunciation by Beato Angelico and the Annunciation of Mary by Rainer Maria Rilke, respectively, to show how jurists can cultivate their sensibilities through contact with artworks.","PeriodicalId":368948,"journal":{"name":"Law & Literature","volume":"79 5 Pt 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121918703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Law & LiteraturePub Date : 2020-12-10DOI: 10.1080/1535685X.2021.1847790
Tommaso Gazzolo
{"title":"The Reflexivity of Law and of Literature","authors":"Tommaso Gazzolo","doi":"10.1080/1535685X.2021.1847790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2021.1847790","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract “As observed by Hart in the opening lines of The Concept of Law, «few questions concerning human society have been asked with such persistence and answered by serious thinkers in so many diverse, strange, and even paradoxical ways as the question 'What is law?'». The question What is Law? has a profoundly different meaning for a jurist than the question What is Chemistry? for a chemist. The reason is that law would not be possible, it would not even exist, without the question What is Law?. Law, in other words, exists only through the question through which it interpellates itself. Law does not institute itself, it does not exist, outside the question on what it is, on what makes it what it is. A similar claim can be made for literature. Literature is nothing but the question What is Literature? – at least since, as observed by Maurice Blanchot, Mallarmé wondered Quelque chose comme les Lettres existe-t-il?: «this question is literature itself» when literature has become a concern for its own essence . It is this reflexive movement – such that law and literature do not get to institute themselves without the question on themselves – that must be examined, to indicate the point where their separation, their distance, remains radical”.","PeriodicalId":368948,"journal":{"name":"Law & Literature","volume":"190 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115661030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Law & LiteraturePub Date : 2020-12-02DOI: 10.1080/1535685X.2021.1847786
A. Campo
{"title":"Legal Perspectives on the Method of Myth","authors":"A. Campo","doi":"10.1080/1535685X.2021.1847786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2021.1847786","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract With this paper I would like to highlight the juridical nature of what De Castro calls, in opposition to the Cartesian myth of method, the method of myth. The myth is characterized by the impossibility and at the same time the unavoidability of the argument about its own origin. Even moving from the immanentist dimension of myth, we are overwhelmed by the desire to turn around and look for our own origin, which vanishes in the same way as Eurydice with Orpheus. The problem of origin, which raises and doesn’t solve this ambiguity, is the problem of law, law to be understood as literature. The metaphor of Orpheus within this literary movement may be used to criticize the legal knowledge from its middle, and not only conceptually. We need a duality of register to bypass the conceptuality and this is why the survey that I propose will be developed on the one side with Deleuze and on the other hand with some elements taken from Shakespeare, Cervantes and Pessoa.","PeriodicalId":368948,"journal":{"name":"Law & Literature","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114635092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Law & LiteraturePub Date : 2020-12-02DOI: 10.1080/1535685X.2021.1847788
A. Condello
{"title":"Transgression and Individuation. Proximities between Law and Literature","authors":"A. Condello","doi":"10.1080/1535685X.2021.1847788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2021.1847788","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper aims at unveiling the relationship between transgression and individuation, by looking at the common roots that such concepts share in law and literature. The main objective of such endeavour is to conclude that unveiling the interconnections between transgression and individuation actually reveals further potentialities in transdisciplinary legal scholarship, especially in terms of its relevant pertinence to core legal-theoretical questions, such as interpretation and adjudication.","PeriodicalId":368948,"journal":{"name":"Law & Literature","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133725991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Law & LiteraturePub Date : 2020-11-09DOI: 10.1080/1535685X.2021.1847785
A. Andronico
{"title":"The Map of a Forbidden Journey: Derrida Before the Law of Kafka","authors":"A. Andronico","doi":"10.1080/1535685X.2021.1847785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2021.1847785","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The text deals with the problem of judgement through the reading made by Derrida of Kafka’s “Vor dem Gesetz”. It aims at underlining the existence of an originary contamination between law and storytelling capable of overcoming the classic dichotomy between law in literature and law as literature.","PeriodicalId":368948,"journal":{"name":"Law & Literature","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115493287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Law & LiteraturePub Date : 2020-10-27DOI: 10.1080/1535685X.2020.1830501
Sasha Purcell
{"title":"Law, Queer Performance and the Bat: Cassandra Cain as Becoming More","authors":"Sasha Purcell","doi":"10.1080/1535685X.2020.1830501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2020.1830501","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper argues that the comic book character Cassandra Cain is representative of a queer performance of identity as shaped by the authority of law. This is argued through visual jurisprudence and queer theory as seen in the form of a superhero comic book. The first section argues that queer theory has identified a legal binary and the emerging breakdown of that binary through the methods of representing and interpreting the law. This is done by analysing queer theory, visual jurisprudence, and their connection to comics and graphic novels. The second section argues that the Batman franchise, its meta-text, and characters, such as Cassandra Cain, engage with these legal binaries and their breakdown. By emphasising the dual-identity of characters and the role of family, it argues that the meta-text allows new stories to engage with contemporary legalities and its effect on identity. The third section argues that Cassandra, in Batman Detective Comics Volume 3 – League of Shadows, 1 is performative of queer jurisprudence through both textual and visual elements. In particular she is performative of a breakdown of binaries in her attempts to transcend their structure, becoming more than a passive subject of binary identities, and becoming more of a true self.","PeriodicalId":368948,"journal":{"name":"Law & Literature","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129323748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Law & LiteraturePub Date : 2020-10-23DOI: 10.1080/1535685X.2020.1827522
D. Manderson
{"title":"Force of Wall","authors":"D. Manderson","doi":"10.1080/1535685X.2020.1827522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2020.1827522","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Rafael Cauduro’s mural The Seven Crimes of Justice, situated in the Supreme Court of Mexico, speaks to the old problem of the relationship between art, politics and the State. In Mexico City, the birthplace of modern muralism, Rafael Cauduro confronts its ambivalent legacy and offers up new solutions. And at the same time, at the very heart of the legal system, Cauduro presents a critique of law and justice almost unprecedented in its uncompromising determination to lay bare the brutality of contemporary legal phenomena, not just in Mexico but around the world. This essay examines how Cauduro’s aesthetic choices address the history of modern muralism, and how his thematic choices address the history of modern law. But above all, how do these two modes of representation, the visual and the legal, actually relate to one another? Murals and law have something in common—a belief in the force of walls. The Seven Crimes of Justice binds this common thematic together in a remarkable work that has to date attracted little critical attention. This essay gives it the attention it deserves, focusing on questions of time and memory, and of the relationship between the force of law and the force of art.","PeriodicalId":368948,"journal":{"name":"Law & Literature","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124776641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Law & LiteraturePub Date : 2020-10-22DOI: 10.1080/1535685x.2020.1830502
Edwin Bikundo
{"title":"Reading Faust into International Criminal Law","authors":"Edwin Bikundo","doi":"10.1080/1535685x.2020.1830502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685x.2020.1830502","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Metaphorical references to the devil in international criminal justice are various, varied and tap into a rich vein of allusion, association and meaning. These range from simple references to evil, to more complex referencing to Faustian pacts of one form or another, to the downright esoteric encompassing the arcane origins of the immunity erstwhile afforded to official acts. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta’s statement ‘That devil shall be defeated’ as well as Canadian General Romeo Dallaire’s ‘Shake Hands with the Devil’ are two examples respectively resisting and promoting international individual criminal liability. That Carl Schmitt was asked by his interrogator at Nuremberg ‘when did you renounce the devil?’ and that defence counsel at the International Criminal court in the Kenyan Situation analogised the Kenyan government as being accused of entering into ‘a deal with the devil’, to the judge at Rudolf Kastner’s case in Israel related to Nazi-era crimes described him as having ‘sold his soul to the devil’; cut across perpetrators and victims and speak of knowing and willing compacts with evil in order to, allegedly, produce good. Which is to say that they are all political theodicies explaining away evil by linking it in some causal way to good.","PeriodicalId":368948,"journal":{"name":"Law & Literature","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124136405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}