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- Three Law-Related Dramas Win Peabody Awards
- BBC Drama "Silk" Comes Back To UK Primetime In 2012
- Legal Philosophy in the Common Law World
- Coal Mining, Up Close
| Three Law-Related Dramas Win Peabody Awards Posted: 31 Mar 2011 11:16 AM PDT CBS' legal drama The Good Wife, FX's Justified (based on an Elmore Leonard character), and Sherlock: A Study in Pink (an updating of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes), which ran on many PBS stations this year, have won Peabody Awards. Here's a link to the Peabody Awards home page, which lists all winners, including Rupert Gould's version of Macbeth, starring Patrick Stewart, aired on PBS, Spike Lee's "If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise," aired on HBO, PBS/POV's look back at Daniel Ellsberg, "The Most Dangerous Man in America," and WILL-TV (Champaign, Illinois)'s "The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today," an examination of the separation of church and state.   |
| BBC Drama "Silk" Comes Back To UK Primetime In 2012 Posted: 31 Mar 2011 07:41 AM PDT The BBC1 series Silk will return to the airwaves next year. It stars Maxine Peake as barrister Martha Costello. Read an interview with writer Peter Moffatt about why law makes such good drama here. Lucky UK viewers can watch the first season of Silk online or on DVD. Here's what Sarah Palin (not, not that one, this one's a barrister) says about the show. |
Here, another review by James Walton.
Legal Philosophy in the Common Law World
Posted: 31 Mar 2011 07:27 AM PDT
Gerald J. Postema, University of North Carolina, Philosophy and Law, has published Legal Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Common Law World, as Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence volume 11, Autumn 2011. Here is the abstract.
This above-titled monograph tells a critical history of Anglophone general jurisprudence and legal philosophy in the twentieth century as a tale of two Boston lectures, separated by sixty years, and their respective legacies: Holmes's "Path of Law" (1897) and Hart's Holmes Lecture "Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals" (1958). The text here consists of the Preface and Table of Contents of this soon-to-be-published work.Download the text from SSRN at the link.
Posted: 31 Mar 2011 07:29 AM PDT
The Harvard University Press Blog notes that Spike TV premiered a new reality series, Coal, March 30 at 9 p.m. (8 Central time). The first fourteen minutes of the first episode is available for online viewing. It offers a look at the work involved in drilling for and removing the resource from the earth, and the dangers that miners face every day. The miners who appear on Coal apparently do so without pay from the documentarians.
The TNT television series Leverage addressed the dangers of coal mining and problems with regulation in one episode, "The Underground Job," last year (commentary here). Steven Fesenmaier of WV Film lists movies about coal mining and miners here. Some films, like Matewan (1987), have a definite political/legal message.
The TNT television series Leverage addressed the dangers of coal mining and problems with regulation in one episode, "The Underground Job," last year (commentary here). Steven Fesenmaier of WV Film lists movies about coal mining and miners here. Some films, like Matewan (1987), have a definite political/legal message.
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