Law and magic : a collection of essays / edited by Christine A. Corcos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Corcos, Christine, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law and magic.

Physical Description:

xiii, 429 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, [2010]

Contents:

Law and magic : an introduction out of a hat / Loren A. Smith

It's in the cards : the law of Tarot (and other fortunes told) / Julie D. Cromer

Rogues, vagabonds, and lunatics: how the right to listen cleared the future for fortunetellers / Craig Freeman and Stephen Banning

Non-mainstream religions and the law / Pamela Edwards

The effects of freedom of information laws on corruption and the quality of decision-making under U.S., E.U., and German freedom of information laws / Indra Spiecker genannt Döhmann

"Ghostwriters" : spiritualists, copyright infringement, and rights of publicity / Christine A. Corcos

Now you own it, now you don't: copyright and related rights in magic productions and performances / F. Jay Dougherty

Secrets revealed : protecting magicians' intellectual property without law / Jacob Loshin

Selling secrets : legal problems of the magic market / Florian Faust

The magic of civil procedure / Frederick A. Brodie

The case of the magician's assistant : McAfoos v. Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd / Robert M. Jarvis

Magical realism / Jessie Allen

The legal regulation and licensing of alchemy in late medieval England / Wendy J. Turner

On death and magic: law, necromancy, and the great beyond / Eric J. Gouvin

The type of possession is nine-tenths of the law: criminal responsibility for acts performed under the influence of hypnosis or bewitchment / Susan D. Rozelle

"When you awake you will feel no remorse": stage hypnotism and the law / Garrett Epps

Unsympathetic magic: charitable status and magical practice in the United Kingdom / Peter W. Edge

Principled conjuring tails : a twenty-first century lawyer's view of the history of animals in magic / Rebekah Heiser Hanley

Taking the rabbit out of the hat: let the animals disappear from magic acts / Lisa Johnson

Hocus ipsa loquitur : the affinity between law and magic / Noel Marcovecchio

Conjuring and the courtroom : all I needed to know about trying cases I learned by doing magic shows / Kenneth M. Trombly

Smoke and mirrors : the escamoteur as an expert witness / Sydney Beckman

Perspectives, mainly Scottish, on evidence and procedure in witchcraft trials / Richard Ramsey

"Low connections" : some wisdom for the academic lawyer in a history of English magic / Marianne Wesson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781594603556

1594603553

OCLC:

310097158