Intersections of Law and Culture

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Setting the Stage: Reading Law and Culture....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Law as Gendered Narratives: Criminal Court Decisions against Left-Wing Terrorists....Pages 17-30
Every Picture Speaks a Thousand Words: Visualizing Judicial Authority in the Press....Pages 31-49
I Hereby Find You Guilty of Cheating: How Television Judges Give Personal Problems Legal Dimensions....Pages 50-65
Female Genital Cutting, Migration and the Art of Legal Boundary Maintenance....Pages 66-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
The Actant Doesn’t Speak: Configuring a Law for Research on Humans....Pages 85-101
Giù le mani dalla mia storia: Narrating Regional Identity Politics in Ticino....Pages 102-115
‘That’s Life’: Actualizing the Non-Lieu as an Empty Space....Pages 116-130
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
‘On the Study Methods of our Time’: Methodologies of Law and Literature in the Context of Interdisciplinary Studies....Pages 133-149
The Reader as Thought Experiment: Character, Moral Luck and the Contingent....Pages 150-169
Between the Rational and the Marvellous: Edgar Allan Poe and the Counter-Enlightenment Origins of the Modern Detective Story....Pages 170-191
Law’s Life on the Screen....Pages 192-212
Back Matter....Pages 213-216