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Law and the arts / edited by Susan Tiefenbrun ; prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University.
LIBRA KF4288.A75 L374 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Contributions in legal studies 0147-1074 ; no. 87.
- Contributions in legal studies, 0147-1074 ; no. 87
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law and art--United States--Congresses.
- Law and art.
- United States.
- Arts--Censorship--United States--Congresses.
- Arts.
- Arts--Censorship.
- Copyright and electronic data processing--United States--Congresses.
- Copyright and electronic data processing.
- Law and literature--Congresses.
- Law and literature.
- Critical legal studies--Congresses.
- Critical legal studies.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Merchant of Venice--Congresses.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 256 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- An interdisciplinary examination of the relationships between law and the humanities.
- Contents:
- Part I Law, the Arts, and Censorship 1
- Censorship and TV
- 1 Legal Restraints and the TV Channeling Controversy / Sondra M. Rubenstein 3
- Censorship and the Arts
- 2 Censorship and the Arts in the United States Today / Leanne Katz 17
- Censorship and Literature and Film
- 3 Art and Repression in the McCarthy Era / Howard Fast 23
- Censorship and the New Media
- 4 The Old Problem of New Communications Technologies: Can We Do Better This Time? / Eric M. Freedman 29
- Part II Law and Cyberspace 45
- Copyright Protection of Art and the Internet
- 5 Museums Without Walls: Property Rights and Reproduction in the World of Cyberspace / Susan J. Drucker, Gary Gumpert 47
- Copyright Laws and Computers
- 6 Copyright and Cyberspace: Functioning in a Digitally Networked Environment / Donald Fishman 67
- Part III Law and Literature 79
- Hermeneutics and the Racial Laws and Literature of France
- 7 Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France: Pr%ecis of a Talk to the Hofstra Conference / Richard H. Weisberg 81
- Unjust Laws, Morality, and Interpretation
- 8 A Comment on Richard H. Weisberg's Work on the Vichy Lawyers / Robin West 93
- Factums: The Author as Uncensored Lawyer in France
- 9 Legal Fiction and Literary Fiction in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France / Christian Biet 103
- Part IV Law, Literary Theory, and Critical Legal Theory: A Forum 113
- Critical Legal Theory
- 10 Mitchel Lasser (Moderator), Duncan Kennedy, David Kennedy, Nathaniel Berman (Discussants), Norman Silber and Lawrence Kessler (Commentators) 115
- Part V Law and Shakespeare 147
- The Case of The Merchant of Venice: Shylock v. Antonio on Appeal
- 11 Introduction to Interdisciplinarity and the Retrial of Shylock / Susan Tiefenbrun 149
- 12 The Trial of Shylock from The Merchant of Venice / Peter M. Sander 153
- 13 Appellant's Brief / Daniel J. Kornstein 171
- 14 Appellee's Brief / Floyd Abrams 177
- 15 Appellant's Reply Brief / Daniel J. Kornstein 185
- 16 Shylock v. Antonio on Appeal: The Deliberations / Daniel J. Kornstein 189
- 17 Thoughts of a Literary Judge / Howard Kissel 213
- 18 Shylock on Appeal / Peter J. Alscher 217
- Part VI Law and Art 237
- Law and Architecture
- 19 Cass Gilberts's United States Supreme Court and the Comprehensive Planning Deal / Barbara S. Christen 239.
- Notes:
- "Based on an ... interdisciplinary conference on law and the arts that was held at the Hofstra University School of Law on October 30, 1996"--Foreword.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0313308055
- OCLC:
- 38527911
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