Short description:

This handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the cutting-edge field of cultural legal studies.

Long description:

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.

Table of Contents:

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