Jurisprudence Popularized: Between Law, Literature, and Film

Marta Dubowska

doi:10.36280/afpifs.2021.1.21

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Jurisprudence Popularized: Between Law, Literature, and Film

Marta Dubowska

Prawoznawstwo popularne: pomiędzy prawem, literaturą i filmem

Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, nr 1(26)/2021, s. 21-32

DOI 10.36280/afpifs.2021.1.21 ↗

Issue: nr 1(26)/2021
Pages: 21-32
Published: 2021
Article language: English

Polish

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W niniejszym artykule rozważam rzekome podobieństwa pomiędzy metodologią „studiów literackich w prawie” a metodologią „mediów wizualnych w prawie”. Następnie poddaję ocenie argumenty na rzecz przydatności drugiego z tych podejść. Wygląda na to, że choć oba podejścia nawiązują do podobnych podstaw humanistycznych, to stanowią jednak stanowiska oddzielne. To rodzi potrzebę, aby uzasadnić wartość „mediów wizualnych w prawie” niezależnie od uznania wartości „studiów literackich w prawie”. Rozważam w szczególności zasadność oskarżeń pod adresem ruchu „prawa i filmu” jako zagrożenia dla prawa i jego autorytetu (w odniesieniu do argumentacji Richarda K. Sherwina o „popularyzacji prawa”).

Translated keywords

prawo i literatura
prawo i film
prawo i kultura popularna
narracja
prawoznawstwo

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Abstract

In this paper I discuss the apparent similarities between the “literate approach” and the aspiring “visual media approach”. Then, I scrutinize arguments for utility of the second approach. It seems that even though both approaches are founded on similar humanistic considerations, they are nonetheless separate positions; thus the need to justify the application of the second approach independently of the first. As an important task in due course I consider debunking the arguments in support of accusations of the “law and film” movement of being a threat to law and its legitimacy (as related to the “law going pop” argument by Richard K. Sherwin).

Keywords

law and literature
law and film
law and popular culture
narrative
jurisprudence

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Marta Dubowska

Jagiellonian University in Kraków

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0010-4830

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Issue nr 1(26)/2021

Pages: 21-32
Published: 2021
DOI: 10.36280/afpifs.2021.1.21
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[ref-001] Asimow, M., Greenfield, S., Jorge, G., Machura, S., Osbom, G., Robson, P., Sharp, C.,

[ref-002] Sockloskie, R. (2005). Perceptions of lawers - a transnational study of student views on the image of law and lawyers. I nternational Journal of Legal Profession 12, 407-436.

[ref-003] Cardozo, B. (1947). Law and Literature, In M.E. Hall (ed.), Selected Wriings of Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (pp. 339-56), New York: Fallon Publications.

[ref-004] Cole, S.A., Dioso-Villa, R. (2009). Investigating the 'CSI Effect' Effect: Medina and Litigation Crisis in Criminal Law. Stanford Law Review 61, 1335-1373.

[ref-005] Cover, R.M. (1986). Violence and the Word. Yale Law Journal 95, 1601-1629.

[ref-006] Dubowska, M., Dyrda, A. (2018). Legal Narrative and Legal Disagreement. Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej 17, 47-59.

[ref-007] Dyrda, A. (2020). Realizm prawniczy [Legal Realism]. In B. Dziobkowski, J. Hołówka (eds.), Filozofia prawa [Philosphy of Law] (pp. 514-532). Warszawa: PWN.

[ref-008] Goodrich, P. (2009). Screening Law. Law and Literature 21, 1-23.

[ref-009] Goodrich, P. (2017). Pictures as Precedents: The Visual Turn and the Status of Figure in Judgements. In E. Anker and B. Meyler (eds.), New Directions in Law and Literature (pp. 176-192). Oxfrod: Oxford Univeristy Press.

[ref-010] Herman, D. (2007). The Cambridge Companion to Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[ref-011] Milbrandt, M.K. (2010). Understanding the Role of Art in Social Movements and Transformation. Journal Art for Life 1, 7-18.

[ref-012] Olson, G. (2014). Narration and Narrative in Legal Discourse. In P. Huhn (ed.), Living Handbook of Narratology. Hamburg: Hamburg Unibersity.

[ref-013] Podlas, K. (2001). Please Adjust Your Signal: How Television's Syndicated Courtrooms Bias Our Juror Citizenery. American Business Law Journal 39, 1-24.

[ref-014] Posner, R. (1997). Legal Narratology. University of Chicago Law Review 64, 737-747.

[ref-015] Schur, A. (1997). Flourishing or Perishing? Law and Literature Airbrushed. Law & Literature 26, 105-116.

[ref-016] Silbey, J. (2002). What We do When We Do Law and Popular Culture. Law & Social Inquiry 27, 139-168.

[ref-017] Silbey, J. (2012) Images in/of Law. New York Law School Review 57, 171-183.

[ref-018] Silbey, J. (2017). American Trial Films and the Popular Culture of Law. Northeastern Public Law and Theory Faculty Research Papers Series No. 321-2018.

[ref-019] Sherwin, R. (2000). When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line between Law and Popular Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

[ref-020] Sherwin, R. (2014). Introduction: Law, Culture and Visual Studies. In A. Wagner, R.

[ref-021] Sherwin (eds.), Law, Culture and visual Studies. New York: Springer.

[ref-022] Stone Peters, J. (2005). Law, Literature and the Vanishing Real: On the Future of an Interdisciplinary Illusion. PMLA 120, 442-453

[ref-023] Tyler, T.R. (2006). Viewing CSI and the Threshold of Guilt: Managing Truth and Justice in Reality and Fiction. The Yale Law Journal 115, 1050-1085.

[ref-024] West, R.L. (1987). Adjudication is Not Interpretation: Some Reservations About the Law-as Literature Movement. Tennessee Law Review 54, 203-278.

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