Law and the Arts

Subjects:

• Law » Law (General)
• Architecture & Planning » Architecture
• The Arts » Art
• Literature » Literature (General)

Reviews:

• Readers looking for an exploration of the complexities of the relationship of law and art as well as an exploration of the past and future of that relationship will find it in Law and the Arts, which contains articles on topics as diverse as literary expression in cyberspace. It is unusual and especially valuable in bringing together scholarship on literature and on other modes of artistic expression....[M]any in law and the humanities will find that this edited collection is a wonderful resource.
  —Choice
• Overall this volume takes bits from the other sides of our lives as lawyers. It reminds us that law was never the refuge of mere mechanics. The arts and humanities are inescapably a part of us and often animate our work in the profession. Perhaps some of us knew this before applying to law school,but forgot the message along the way. For this reminder we are grateful to Susan Tiefenbrun and her collegues.
  —New York Law Journal

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