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Susan Tiefenbrun
ISBN: 0-313-30805-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30805-5
272 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 2/28/1999
List Price: $115.00 (UK Sterling Price: £79.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: 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.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Stuart Rabinowitz
    Preface by Susan Tiefenbrun
    Law, the Arts, and Censorship
    Legal Restraints at the TV Channeling Controversy by Sondra M. Rubenstein
    Censorship in the Arts in the U.S. Today by Leanne Katz
    Art and Repression in the McCarthy Era by Howard Fast
    The Old Problem of New Communications Technologies: Can We Do Better This Time? by Eric M. Freedman
    Law and Cyberspace
    Museums without Walls: Promissory Rights and Reproduction in the World of Cyberspace by Susan J. Drucker and Gary Gumpert
    Copyright and Cyberspace: Functioning in a Digitally Networked Environment by Donald Fishman
    Law and Literature
    Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France: Précis of a Talk to the Hofstra Conference by Richard H. Weisberg
    A Comment on Richard H. Weisberg's Work on the Vichy Lawyers by Robin West
    Legal Fiction and Literary Fiction in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France by Christian Biet
    Law, Literary Theory, and Critical Legal Theory: A Forum by Mitchel Lasser, et al.
    Law and Shakespeare
    Introduction to Interdisciplinarity and the Retrial of Shylock by Susan Tiefenbrun
    The Trial of Shylock from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare by Peter M. Sander
    Appellant's Brief by Daniel J. Kornstein
    Appellee's Brief by Floyd Abrams
    Appellant's Reply Brief by Daniel J. Kornstein
    Shylock v. Antonio on Appeal: The Deliberations by Daniel J. Kornstein
    Thoughts of a Literary Judge by Howard Kissel
    Shylock on Appeal by Peter J. Alscher
    Law and Art
    Cass Gilberts's U.S. Supreme Court and the Comprehensive Planning Ideal by Barbara S. Christen
    Index
About the Author: 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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