Law and HumanitiesPub Date : 2024-01-25DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2024.2304947
Sean Mulcahy, Kate Seear
{"title":"‘The tribunes of the people, the tongues o’ the common mouth’: parliamentarians as representatives when scrutinizing laws","authors":"Sean Mulcahy, Kate Seear","doi":"10.1080/17521483.2024.2304947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2024.2304947","url":null,"abstract":"Shakespeare’s First Folio included publication of Coriolanus, a play that is said to be inflected by political events at the time of its writing and still so by its publication during a period the ...","PeriodicalId":42313,"journal":{"name":"Law and Humanities","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139582259","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 and HumanitiesPub Date : 2024-01-25DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2024.2307091
Catherine Pocock
{"title":"Challenging the Beckett canon: how Godot is a Woman interrogates the gender biases of authorial control in copyright","authors":"Catherine Pocock","doi":"10.1080/17521483.2024.2307091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2024.2307091","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Law and Humanities (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":42313,"journal":{"name":"Law and Humanities","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139582264","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 and HumanitiesPub Date : 2024-01-25DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2024.2304945
Ian Ward
{"title":"Shakespeare’s testament: England in 1623","authors":"Ian Ward","doi":"10.1080/17521483.2024.2304945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2024.2304945","url":null,"abstract":"The year 1623 is not one which tends to set racing the historical pulse. Indeed, if it were not for the publication of the First Folio it would be barely remembered at all. But if we look a little ...","PeriodicalId":42313,"journal":{"name":"Law and Humanities","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139582262","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 and HumanitiesPub Date : 2024-01-09DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2023.2298001
Wojciech Engelking
{"title":"Caliban as legal subject: The Tempest and Renaissance juridical thought","authors":"Wojciech Engelking","doi":"10.1080/17521483.2023.2298001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2023.2298001","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper the author reads the figure of Shakespeare’s Caliban from The Tempest through the lens of the legal dispute on how the inhabitants of lands colonized by European countries are legal s...","PeriodicalId":42313,"journal":{"name":"Law and Humanities","volume":"190 9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139409593","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 and HumanitiesPub Date : 2023-11-28DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2023.2285180
Jacques de Ville
{"title":"The autobiographical constitution","authors":"Jacques de Ville","doi":"10.1080/17521483.2023.2285180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2023.2285180","url":null,"abstract":"The idea that the modern constitution can be understood as the autobiography of a people is becoming a frequently invoked metaphor. Autobiography is commonly understood as a narrative of an individ...","PeriodicalId":42313,"journal":{"name":"Law and Humanities","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138533989","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 and HumanitiesPub Date : 2023-11-19DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2023.2281056
Kim D. Weinert
{"title":"Trying to be heard – the voices of first nation People in Herzog’s Where the Green Ants Dream","authors":"Kim D. Weinert","doi":"10.1080/17521483.2023.2281056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2023.2281056","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines how speech and speech acts are central to Othering First Nations people in Australia. Weiner Herzog’s film, Where the Green Ants Dream (1984), centres around a fictional Dream...","PeriodicalId":42313,"journal":{"name":"Law and Humanities","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138533988","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 and HumanitiesPub Date : 2023-10-23DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2023.2271709
Javier Krauel
{"title":"Sensing justice through contemporary Spanish cinema: aesthetics, politics, law <b>Sensing justice through contemporary Spanish cinema: aesthetics, politics, law</b> , by Mónica López Lerma, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2021, 183 pp., £19.99 (paperback), ISBN: 9781474442053","authors":"Javier Krauel","doi":"10.1080/17521483.2023.2271709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2023.2271709","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Davide Panagia and Jacques Rancière, ‘Dissenting Words: A Conversation with Jacques Rancière’ (2000) 30(2) Diacritics 115.2 See Mónica López Lerma and Julen Etxabe, Rancière and Law (Routledge 2018).3 Desmond Manderson, Songs without Music: Aesthetic Dimensions of Law and Justice (University of California Press 2000) 28.4 Mieke Bal, Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide (Toronto University Press 2002) 137.5 Ruth Hertz, ‘Almodóvar’s High Heels Revisited: A Scandalous or Thought-Provoking Portrayal of a Judge?’ (2023) 17(1) Law and Humanities 193.6 Because the democratic potential of film is exclusively framed in terms of Rancière’s thought, which emphasizes moments of rupture, it opens up the problematic of the inscription of political acts. As Aletta Norval observes, one underdeveloped aspect of Rancière’s characterization of democracy is his tendency ‘to refrain from explicitly engaging with the issues that arise after moments of rupture, when previously excluded senses of wrong become visible and alternative ways of doing things need to become institutionalized and thus inscribed into the current order.’ According to Norval, it is important to supplement Rancière’s characterization of democracy as rupture with an account of how this rupture is inscribed onto the larger political horizon. See Arletta Norval, ‘“Writing a Name in the Sky”: Rancière, Cavell, and the Possibility of Egalitarian Inscription’ in Nikolas Kompridis (ed), The Aesthetic Turn in Political Thought (Bloomsbury Academic 2014) 194.","PeriodicalId":42313,"journal":{"name":"Law and Humanities","volume":"25 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135366407","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 and HumanitiesPub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2023.2256189
David Gurnham
{"title":"Law and Humanities issue 17.2.","authors":"David Gurnham","doi":"10.1080/17521483.2023.2256189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2023.2256189","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 17, No. 2, 2023)","PeriodicalId":42313,"journal":{"name":"Law and Humanities","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138533984","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 and HumanitiesPub Date : 2023-09-26DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2023.2263240
Sara M. Walsh
{"title":"The crime control of true crime best sellers","authors":"Sara M. Walsh","doi":"10.1080/17521483.2023.2263240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2023.2263240","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIn criminology, social and legal eras are often referred to as dominated by either due process or crime control narratives. In general, crime control narratives focus on the need for tough-on-crime policies and on the terror of criminals wreaking havoc in society. By contrast, due process narratives focus on the need to move slowly and methodically through our justice process to avoid mistakes and violations of human rights. These eras swing back and forth, neither wholly related nor unrelated to the conservative/liberal pendulum of broader politics. Arguably, despite a conservative and nationalist moment in US politics, our criminal justice policy pendulum is again swinging in the due-process direction. This is evidenced in policy reforms and popular calls for policy reform such as monitoring the police, ending cash bail, legalizing marijuana, and so on. Contrary to prevailing trends, best-selling true crime books remain crime control oriented regardless of the historical/cultural era.KEYWORDS: Due processcrime controltrue crimecriminal justice policytough-on-crimecrime and popular culturecultural criminologypopular criminologymass mediabest sellers Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Truman Capote arguably invented a new style of storytelling he called the ‘non-fiction novel’. While this is disputed, it is undeniable that In Cold Blood was a best selling work that shaped true crime writing to come. See Ralph F Voss, Truman Capote and the Legacy of in Cold Blood (The University of Alabama Press 2011).2 See ibid.3 See Megan Boorsma, ‘The Whole Truth: The Implications of America’s True Crime Obsession’ (2017) 9 Elon Law Review 209.4 e.g. legally not-guilty v. factually innocent.5 ‘[H]omicides account for almost 80 percent of the total crimes recounted in the true crime books’. Alexis M Durham III, H Preston Elrod and Patrick T Kinkade, ‘Images of Crime and Justice: Murder and the “True Crime” Genre’ (1995) 23 Journal of Criminal Justice 143, 146.6 Jean Murley, The Rise of True Crime: 20th-Century Murder and American Popular Culture (Praeger Publishers 2008) 3.7 Diana Rickard, ‘Truth or Doubt: Questioning Legal Outcomes in True-Crime Documentaries’ (2022) 17 Law and Humanities 1, 3.8 Also called websleuths, armchair detectives, and cyber detectives.9 Elizabeth Yardley and others, ‘What’s the Deal with ‘Websleuthing’? News Media Representations of Amateur Detectives in Networked Spaces’ (2018) 14 Crime, Media, Culture 81.10 See Herbert Packer, The Limits of the Criminal Sanction (Stanford University Press 1968); Herbert Packer, ‘Two Models of the Criminal Process’ (1964) 113 University of Pennsylania Law Review 1.11 Packer, ‘Two Models of the Criminal Process’ 12.12 ibid 5.13 ibid 13.14 ibid.15 Kent Roach, ‘Four Models of the Criminal Process’ (1998) 89 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 671.16 Roach (n 15) 692.17 It is beyond the scope of the work here but most crime is not reporte","PeriodicalId":42313,"journal":{"name":"Law and Humanities","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135719238","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 and HumanitiesPub Date : 2023-09-21DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2023.2261686
Zoe L. Tongue
{"title":"I am the law: how Judge Dredd predicted our future <b>I am the law: how Judge Dredd predicted our future</b> , by Michael Molcher, Oxford, Rebellion Developments, 2023, 208 pp., £14.99 RRP (Paperback), ISBN: 978-1786185709.","authors":"Zoe L. Tongue","doi":"10.1080/17521483.2023.2261686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2023.2261686","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Michael Molcher, I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future (Rebellion, 2023).2 Derrick Bryson Taylor, ‘George Floyd Protests: A Timeline’ (New York Times, 5 Nov 2021) <https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-floyd-protests-timeline.html> accessed 18 Jul 2023.3 Meg Kelly, Joyce Sohyun Lee, and Jon Swaine, ‘Partially blinded by police’ (Washington Post, 14 Jul 2020) <https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/07/14/george-floyd-protests-police-blinding/> accessed 18 Jul 2023.4 Vikram Dodd and Haroon Siddique, ‘Sarah Everard murder: Wayne Couzens given whole-life sentence’ (The Guardian, 30 Sept 2021) <https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/30/sarah-everard-murder-wayne-couzens-whole-life-sentence> accessed 18 Jul 2023.5 Tristan Kirk, ‘Met officers justify breaking up Sarah Everard vigil as it became “anti-police protest”’ (Evening Standard, 7 Jun 2022) <https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/met-officers-sarah-everard-vigil-protest-arrests-prosecution-b1004602.html> accessed 18 Jul 2023.6 Molcher (n1) 66.7 ibid 37.8 James Poulter, ‘How ‘ACAB’ Became the Universal Anti-Police Slogan’ (Vice, 8 Jun 2020) <https://www.vice.com/en/article/akzv48/acab-all-cops-are-bastards-origin-story-protest> accessed 18 Jul 2023.9 Colin Groundwater, ‘A brief history of ACAB’ (GQ Magazine, 11 Jun 2020) <https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/acab-meaning> accessed 18 Jul 2023.10 Molcher (n1) Ch. 1.11 Pete Brook, ‘When cops raided a hip 1970s London café, Britain’s Black Power movement rose up’ (Timeline, 5 Feb 2018) <https://timeline.com/cops-raided-a-1970s-london-cafe-britains-black-power-movement-ff855e7b23f0> accessed 18 Jul 2023.12 Molcher (n1) 17–18; Jessica White, ‘Police, Press & Race in the Notting Hill Carnival ‘Disturbances’’ (History Workshop, 31 Aug 2020) <https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/black-history/notting-hill-carnival-disturbances/> accessed 18 Jul 2023.13 ibid.14 Molcher (n1) 35; Pat Mills (Ed), 2000 A.D. Programme 2 (IPC Magazines, 1977).15 Molcher (n1) 45.16 ibid 46.17 ibid 52.18 ibid 29–30.19 Molcher (n1) 32.20 On the punitive policies of Thatcher and subsequent governments, see: David Faulkner, ‘The End of the Beginning of an Era’ Politics and Punishment Under Margaret Thatcher’s Government’ in Martin Wasik and Sotirios Santatzoglou (Eds), The Management of Change in Criminal Justice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); Stephen Farrall, Naomi Burke, and Colin Hay, ‘Revisiting Margaret Thatcher’s law and order agenda: The slow-burning fuse of punitiveness’ (2016) 11 British Politics 205–31.21 Molcher (n1) 94.22 ibid 90.23 ibid 121.24 Illan Rua Wall, Law and Disorder: Sovereignty, Protest, Atmosphere (Routledge, 2020) 1; 65.25 ibid 3.26 Molcher (n1) 233.27 Mark Landler, ‘“Get Rid of Them”: A Statue Falls as Britain Confronts Its Racist History’ (New York Times, 8 Jun 2020) <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/world/europe/edward-colston-statue-britain-racism.html> ","PeriodicalId":42313,"journal":{"name":"Law and Humanities","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136131131","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}