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• New Books On Law and the Humanities From DeGruyter
• Conference On Law and Literature In Diaspora Studies To Take Place in May, 2013
• Busman's Holiday
• Tracking the Rise of Law As a Scholarly Discipline
• Call For Papers

New Books On Law and the Humanities From DeGruyter Posted: 25 Apr 2013 09:05 AM PDT New books available from DeGruyter: Karen-Margrethe Simonsen has edited Law and Justice in Literature, Film and Theatre: Nordic Perspectives (Law & Literature; 5).  Aims and Scope This volume is a Nordic contribution to research on law and humanities. It treats the legal culture of the Nordic countries through intensive analyses of canonical Nordic artworks. Law and justice have always been important issues in Nordic literature, film and theater from the Icelandic sagas through Ludvig Holberg and Henrik Ibsen to Lars Noréns theatre and Lars von Trier's Dogme films of today. This book strives to answer two fundamental questions: Is there a special Nordic justice? And what does the legal and literary/aesthetic culture of the North mean for the concept of law and justice and for the understanding of the interdisciplinary exchange of law and humanities? The concept of law and literature as a research area was originally developed in countries of common law. This book investigates law and humanities from a different legal tradition, and contributes thus both to the discussion of the general and the comparative studies of law and humanities. Table of Contents Karen-Margrethe Simonsen Preface 1 Ian Ward Crossing Borders 5 Ditlev Tamm Law and Literature in a Nordic Legal Perspective 11 Hans Hauge Nordic Sameness and Difference 25 Peter Garde "With Laws Shall Our Land Be Built Up". The Law in the Sagas – Ideal and Failure 45 Toomas Kotkas Two Conceptions of Justice in the Kalevala: A Nietzschean Reading 63 Arild Linneberg From Natural Law To The Nature Of Laws: Ludvig Holberg 77 Karen-Margrethe Simonsen The Confession of a Judge. On Narrative Desire and Law in Steen Steensen Blicher's Early Crime Story "the Pastor of Vejlbye" 85 Bjarne Markussen Contesting Narratives: Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Trygve Allister Diesen's Hold My Heart 103 Ari Hirvonen The Subject of the Law 119 Helle Porsdam From 'Law and Literature' to 'Law and Humanities': Transatlantic Dialogues on Film – the Case of Lars von Trier 149 vi Contents List of contributors 167 Daniela Carpi and Jeanne Gaakeer have edited Liminal Discourses: Subliminal Tensions in Law and Literature (Law & Literature; 6). Aims and Scope The past few decades in legal and literary studies have challenged the boundaries raised by the different concepts of law and literature espoused by a great variety of theorists. Law's traditionally assumed disciplinary autonomy has been challenged by those who have pursued interdisciplinary methods of research. In particular, the concept of the sublime has moved out of the strictly philosophical and literary fields and crossed the borders between disciplines, finding an application also in the juridical field. On one hand, this volume proposes that the ethical aspect involved in the legal sublime is to contain the arrogance of the law. On the other hand, the volume draws attention to the "and" of interdisciplinary literary-legal studies and offers new daring comparisons between philosophical fields and between apparently distant historical periods. Table of Contents Daniela Carpi Introduction 1: The Sublime of Law fi 1 Jeanne Gaakeer Introduction 2: On the Threshold and Beyond: An Introductory Observation fi 15 Cristina Costantini Representing Law: Narrative Practices, Poetic Devices, Visual Signs and the Aesthetics of the Common Law Mind fi 27 Maria Aristodemou Bare Law Between Two Lives: José Saramago and Cornelia Vismann on Naming, Filing and Cancelling fi 37 Melanie Williams Liminal Tensions in Public to Private Conceptions of Justice: Nussbaum, Woolf and the Struggle for Identity fi 53 Julián Jiménez Heffernan "Under the Force of the Law": Communal Imagination and the Constitutional Sublime in Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor fi 73 Jeanne Clegg Moll Flanders,Ordinary's Accounts and Old Bailey Proceedings fi 95 Sidia Fiorato Ariel and Caliban as Law-conscious Servants Longing for Legal Personhood fi 113 Laura Apostoli Altered Bodies, Fragmented Selves: Reconstructing the Subject in Fay Weldon's The Cloning of Joanna May fi 129 Jeanne Gaakeer The Business of Law and Literature: to Compose an Order, to Imagine Man fi 149 Daniela Carpi Renaissance into Postmodernism: Anticipations of Legal Unrest fi 177

Conference On Law and Literature In Diaspora Studies To Take Place in May, 2013 Posted: 25 Apr 2013 08:48 AM PDT Dr. Daniela Carpi, University of Verona, and President of the Associazione Italiana Diretto e Letteratura announces a Conference on Law and Literature in Diaspora Studies, May 6-9, 2013. Details below. More information available by clicking on the link here. CENTRO ITALO-TEDESCO DEUTSCH-ITALIENISCHES ZENTRUM Law and Literature in Diaspora Studies Villa Vigoni-Gespräche Villa Vigoni, 6-9 MAY 2013 programme Programm und Teilnehmerliste / Programme and Participants: Monday, 06 May 2013 19.00 Welcome Reception, Aperitif 19.30 Dinner Tuesday, 07 May 2013 9.30   Opening addresses Prof. Dr.