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This is a book about jurisprudence-or legal philosophy. The legal philosophical texts under consideration are-to say the least-unorthodox. Tolkien, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, Legally Blonde, and others are referenced as instances of what the author calls lex populi-"pop law". Here, however, issues of legal philosophy are heavily coded, for few of these pop cultural texts announce themselves as expressly legal. Lex Populi reads these texts "jurisprudentially", with an eye to their hidden legal philosophical meanings, enabling connections such as: Tolkien's Ring as Kelsen's grundnorm; vampire slaying as legal language's semiosis; and Hogwarts as substantively unjust. Lex Populi attempts not only a jurisprudential reading of popular culture, but also a popular rereading of jurisprudence, removing it from the legal experts in order to restore it to the public at large: a lex populi by and for the people.



Table of Contents:
@fmct: Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii List Of Abbreviations iii @toc2:Introduction: Toward an Intertextual Jurisprudence 1 1. Kidlit as Law 'n Lit: Harry Potter and the Scales of Justice 000 2. You Slay Me! Buffy as Jurisprude of Desire 000 3. "The First Rule of Fight Club Is--You Do Not Talk About Fight Club!" The Perverse Core of Legal Positivism 000 4. One Recht to Rule Them All! Law's Empire in the Age of Empire 000 5. Precrime Never Pays! Law and Economics in Minority Report 000 6. Critically Blonde: Law School as Training for Hersteria 000 7. "It's the Vibe!" The Common Law Imaginary Down Under 000 8. Million Dollar Terri: "The Culture of Life" and the Right to Die 000 Conclusion: Whither Lex Populi? A Law by and for the People 000 @toc4:Notes 000 References 000 Index 000

About the Author :
William P. MacNeil is Associate Professor of Law at Griffith University.

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"With unmatched eloquence, with veritable clusters of mots justes, and with an unerring ear for the symptoms of legal anxiety in popular texts, MacNeil walks the reader through his intricate and intensely intelligent interpretations of a blazing diversity of texts, tragic, comic, epic, satirical, sci-fi and more." - Media & Arts Law Review "In obeying the form of critical cultural jurisprudence [Lex Populi] succeeds in invoking the visceral. That is, it resounds in the deep registries that drive the very subject-matter of the book itself, animations of the world that are more real than lived existence. For this stylistic achievement in a field which has become notorious for over-complex, technical performances, MacNeil should be celebrated... MacNeil presents the possibility of revolutionising jurisprudence. He offers a way for jurisprudence to actively engage with the 'masses' and in that engagement finds not only a stronger voice, but facilitates other voices on the 'people's law.'" - Griffith Law Review "William MacNeil's book is that rarest of rarae aves - a serious legal study that is fun to read. As its name implies, the book examines "'People's law' or, more loosely, 'pop law'" (1) - law as reflected by contemporary popular culture... By recognizing how popular culture reflects legal structures we can learn not only how society implicitly understands, or misunderstands, law but also gives legal theorists a way of re-examining and rethinking jurisprudence." - Social Science Research Network "What can pop culture contribute to the rights debate? Quite a lot, MacNeil argues. And... his unconventional analysis holds up remarkably well." - Australian Literary Review "The prose is lively, witty, and challenging, full of puns and cultural references that pay a careful reader... Parallel to how Murphy Brown provoked conversation about single parenting, MacNeil believes we can brng jurisprudential issues into public dialogue with the aid of popular culture." - Law and Politics Book Review


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780804753678
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 260
  • Sub Title: The Jurisprudence of Popular Culture
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0804753679
  • Publisher Date: 15 Feb 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 260
  • Series Title: The Cultural Lives of Law
  • Weight: 526 gr


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