Maria aristodemou is senior lecturer at the school of law, birkbeck college, university of london. Speakers will include legal philosophers, legal historians, literary critics, and. The following text was presented as part of the presidential panel at the american comparative literature association, utrecht the netherlands, july 8th 2017. It publishes articles on all aspects of the ancient world, though it maintains a. It has since become the leading interdisciplinary law journal directed to law and the arts, with a specific focus on critical theory and literary expression in its diverse media and forms. Law and literature maria aristodemou oxford university press. It is published by the classical association of ireland, which was founded in 1908.
Decay and resistance in european union law oxford university press, 2018. The first text of its kind to examine advanced literary theory in relation to law. However, whilst literature admits its own artificiality, law insists that it provides not only all the answers but all the right answers. Its examples range from greek myth to contemporary writing, film and popular music, and suggest new ways of living with and entering the legal labyrinth. In this book, maria aristodemou, senior lecturer at birkbeck college, university of london, writes of entire bodies of thought or learning as if they were individuals seeking themselves, sharing in this godforsaken condition. Crime fiction and the law isbn 97818818460 pdf epub. Any attempt to understand the world by means of language, in law or in literature, imposes an artificial order on what is beyond our comprehension. There is a connection and empathy to the situation, but it is not a true experience of the event. The law and literature movement focuses on the interdisciplinary connection between law and literature.
Aristodemou, maria 1993 studies in law and literature. Marianne constable has published broadly on a range of topics in legal rhetoric and philosophy. Taking the unconscious seriously, by maria aristodemou. Movements within legal scholarship itself, the law and economics movement and the law and literature movement, represent efforts to portray law as a social science or as a humanity. Clear introduction to the central concepts fundamental to a study of law and literature. Maria aristodemou, llb bristol llm cambridge joined the school from the university of bristol as a senior lecturer in law in april 2000.
Her most recent book, entitled our word is our bond. Cortazars fantomas and the second russell tribunal. Annamaria piskopani university of athens, real people and characters. Law and literature maria aristodemou oxford university. The panel was composed of joseph slaughter acla president, english and comparative literature, columbia university in the city of new york, maria aristodemou, law, birkbeck college, london, and hala halim comparative literature. Law, for example, or literature, may be described as a subject in an. Maria aristodemou, birkbeck college, university of london, school of law, faculty member. The movement, which explores lawrelated literature and the literary value of legal documents, provides. Crime fiction and the law pdf edited by maria aristodemou, fiona macmillan, patricia tuitt. But what is so captivating in the book is that maria emphasis on the first a i was instructed at the interview aristodemou clearly loves the literature as much as she loves what it can teach us about the law whether she loves the law is a different question. School of law birkbeck, university of london malet street london wc1e 7hx. But if one looks at what lawyers do, one finds that law is more like engineeringlawyers make social devices and structures for their clients just as engineers. Maria aristodemou at birkbeck, university of london. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
If you are interested in literature, philosophy, feminism or jurisprudence, you must read both these books. Crane, race, citizenship, and law in american literature 2002. The first text of its kind to examine advanced literary theory in relation to. As maria aristodemou points out in law and literature. The ave maria international law journal is dedicated to the research and publication of articles that address issues in international law, from a natural law perspective. Maria aristodemou abstract this article is a radical rethinking of public international law through the use of lacanian psychoanalysis.
Classics ireland has been published annually since 1994. Maria aristodemou, law and literature maria aristodemou, law and literature lim, hilary 20041006 00. Aristodemou reflected on gods meaning as unlimited jouissance, before language, beyond law and unmediated by. Agree with it or notits hard not to agree with parts of it, and it is easy to disagree with othersit is the. This chapter is a slightly modified version of an article previously published as bare law between two lives. The prejudices of mary hays international journal of law. Editorial international journal of constitutional law. Journeys from her to eternity,2 when we witness death we do not experience it. Its central thesis is that while contemporary scholarship addresses what lacan calls the symbolic and imaginary registers including law, politics, and ideology, it. The introduction didnt do it crime fiction and the law taylor. With legal history this is many times removed and thus the distance from the origin amplified.
This acclaimed book by maria aristodemou is available at in several formats for your ereader. This field has roots in two major developments in the intellectual history of lawfirst, the growing doubt about whether law in isolation is a source of value and meaning, or whether it must be plugged into a large cultural or philosophical or socialscience context to give it value and. Maria aristodemou, law and literature, feminist legal. Teaching in the interamerican law institute, institute of comparative law. However, whilst literature admits its own artificiality, law insists that it provides not only all the answers but all. Maria aristodemou, law and literature springerlink. Law imagined states law and literature in nigeria 19001966 katherine isobel baxter, northumbria university examines how law was represented in british and nigerian highbrow, middlebrow and popular fiction. This book opens up a range of important perspectives on law and violence by considering the ways in which their relationship is formulated in literature, television and film. This field has roots in two major developments in the intellectual history of law first, the growing doubt about whether law in isolation is a source of value and meaning, or whether it must be plugged into a large cultural or philosophical or socialscience context to give it value and. One hundred years of law, literature and philosophy. Maria aristodemou fatou kine camara daniela carpi susan chaplin. A constant craving for fresh brains and a taste for. Maria aristodemou, law and literature, oxford university press.
Using examples ranging from greek myth to contemporary writing, film and popular music, aristodemou works from the assumption that not just literature but also law are fictions, and she suggests ways in which. Such an approach is an extension of law and literature studies, but is based on audiovisual. Law and literature, published triennially and edited by the faculty of the cardozo school of law of yeshiva university and a board of international scholars, is one of only two journals in the country entirely focused on the interdisciplinary movement known as law and literature. Law and literature journeys from her to eternity maria aristodemou. In addition to seeing law as a form of literature, it sees literature as a form of law, and examines the lawmaking qualities of fiction to explore the fictionmaking qualities of law. Taking the unconscious seriously kindle edition by aristodemou, maria. How legal speech acts, stanford university press, 2014 shows how legal utterances, in speech and writing, are forms of lawinaction. Yannis stamos independent scholar, literature, democracy and the law. Maria aristodemou birkbeck college, london focused on the works by pessoa and houellebecq individuating a connection and a counterposition in their considerations on law and literature. Journeys from her to eternity oxford university press 2000 and of numerous articles on law, literature and psychoanalysis. Armstrong, nancy 1982 the rise of feminine authority in the novel. Law versus equity in the merchant of venice, boulder, co university of colorado press, 1972. Crime fiction and the law maria aristodemou, fiona macmillan, patricia tuitt, eds. Maria aristodemou, senior lecturer in law at birkbeck college, university of london.
Maria aristodemou birkbeck college, university of london. Ever mindful of international laws foundational concept of jus cogens, and recognizing the catholic churchs contribution. Investigating crime fiction, maria aristodemou, fiona macmillan and patricia tuitt 2. Sociolegal studies and the humanities ulster university. Interdisciplinary reflections on the law, the language and the limitations of human rights discourse introduction empathy, literature and human rights.
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