Law and the Arts

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Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999 - 256 pages
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This interdisciplinary study examines the relationships between law and the humanities. The goal of the essays is to promote exchanges of ideas in such diverse, but related fields as law, literature, film, theater, communication, art, and architecture and to inspire readers to think about the laws hidden in the interstices of the arts as well as the artistry of the law.

On the one side, chapters focus attention on legal restraints in the media, censorship of the arts, copyright protection issues on the Internet, and artists' rights in the past and in the present cyberspace era. On the other, the role played by law in literature and theater is examined, and one essay explores the architectural design of the U.S. Supreme Court and how its architects fit into political history. A collection valuable to scholars, researchers, and lay readers alike with interests in the relationships between law and the humanities.

 

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Contents

CENSORSHIP AND TV
3
CENSORSHIP AND THE ARTS
17
Art and Repression in the McCarthy Era
23
The Old Problem of New Communications Technologies Can We Do Better This Time?
29
Law and Cyberspace
45
COPYRIGHT PROTECTION OF ART AND THE INTERNET
47
COPYRIGHT LAWS AND COMPUTERS
67
Law and Literature
79
SHYLOCK V ANTONIO ON APPEAL
149
The Trial of Shylock from The Merchant of Venice
153
Appellants Brief
171
Appellees Brief
177
Appellants Reply Brief
185
Shylock v Antonio on Appeal The Deliberations
189
Thoughts of a Literary Judge
213
Shylock on Appeal
217

HERMENEUTICS AND THE RACIAL LAWS AND LITERATURE OF FRANCE
81
UNJUST LAWS MORALITY AND INTERPRETATION
93
THE AUTHOR AS UNCENSORED LAWYER IN FRANCE
103
Law Literary Theory and Critical Legal Theory A Forum
113
Critical Legal Theory
115
Law and Shakespeare
147
Law and Art
237
LAW AND ARCHITECTURE
239
Index
245
About the Editor and Contributors
251
Copyright

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About the author (1999)

SUSAN TIEFENBRUN is the Director of International Law Programs, the Administrative Director of the Center for Communication Law and Technology, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Hofstra University School of Law. She taught French literature at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College for more than twenty years before becoming a lawyer, and she has written extensively in the field of law and literature.

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TitleLaw and the Arts
Issue 87 of Contributions in legal studies, ISSN 0147-1074
AuthorHofstra University
EditorsSusan W. Tiefenbrun, Susan Tiefenbrun
Editionillustrated
PublisherGreenwood Publishing Group, 1999
ISBN0313308055, 9780313308055
Length256 pages
  
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