Lex Populi : The Jurisprudence of Popular Culture Hardback
by William P. MacNeil
Part of the The Cultural Lives of Law series
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:260 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:15/02/2007
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- ISBN:9780804753678
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:260 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:15/02/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780804753678
