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The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Legal Studies

Author: Karen Crawley; Thomas Giddens; Timothy D. Peters
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367506957
Published In: May 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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. It’s 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: Batman’s 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

Mariëlle 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 Panh’s 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 Kolbeins’s Queer Japan (2019)

Marco Wan

28. Tanya’s 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