This handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the cutting-edge field of cultural legal studies.
Cultural legal studies is revolutionizing the legal discipline by not only examining doctrine and social context but also exploring the distribution and manifestation of legal concerns across various material forms. Emerging from the interdisciplinary shift in critical legal studies and jurisprudence during the latter part of the 20th century, cultural legal studies resides at the crossroads of several traditional fields, including legal studies, cultural studies, literary studies, jurisprudence, media studies, critical theory, history, and philosophy. This area of study is marked by a broad and inclusive understanding of what constitutes a legal source, while focusing on issues of authority, legitimacy, and interpretation across diverse cultural artifacts. Featuring a blend of established and emerging voices, this handbook presents a rich tapestry of perspectives that encapsulate the current landscape of the field while critically engaging with its methodologies, foundational assumptions, limitations, and potential trajectories for the future.
Establishing the significance of the cultural for understanding law, as well as its importance as a potential site for justice, community, and sociality in the world today, this handbook is a key reference point both for those working in the cultural legal context – in legal theory, law and literature, law and film/television, law and aesthetics, cultural studies, and the humanities generally – as well as others interested in the interactions between authority, culture, and meaning.
978-1040013281, 978-1003467762, 978-1040013250, 978-0367506957
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