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Title Law and the arts / edited by Susan Tiefenbrun ; [foreword by Stuart Rabinowitz] ; prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University
Published Westport, Conn. ; London : Greenwood Press, 1999

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Description xii, 256 pages ; 24 cm
Series Contributions in legal studies, 0147-1074 ; no. 87
Contributions in legal studies ; no. 87
Contents Part I Law, the Arts, and Censorship 1 -- Censorship and TV -- 1 Legal Restraints and the TV Channeling Controversy / Sondra M. Rubenstein 3 -- Censorship and the Arts -- 2 Censorship and the Arts in the United States Today / Leanne Katz 17 -- Censorship and Literature and Film -- 3 Art and Repression in the McCarthy Era / Howard Fast 23 -- Censorship and the New Media -- 4 The Old Problem of New Communications Technologies: Can We Do Better This Time? / Eric M. Freedman 29 -- Part II Law and Cyberspace 45 -- Copyright Protection of Art and the Internet -- 5 Museums Without Walls: Property Rights and Reproduction in the World of Cyberspace / Susan J. Drucker, Gary Gumpert 47 -- Copyright Laws and Computers -- 6 Copyright and Cyberspace: Functioning in a Digitally Networked Environment / Donald Fishman 67 -- Part III Law and Literature 79 -- Hermeneutics and the Racial Laws and Literature of France -- 7 Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France: Pr%ecis of a Talk to the Hofstra Conference / Richard H. Weisberg 81 -- Unjust Laws, Morality, and Interpretation -- 8 A Comment on Richard H. Weisberg's Work on the Vichy Lawyers / Robin West 93 -- Factums: The Author as Uncensored Lawyer in France -- 9 Legal Fiction and Literary Fiction in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France / Christian Biet 103 -- Part IV Law, Literary Theory, and Critical Legal Theory: A Forum 113 -- Critical Legal Theory -- 10 Mitchel Lasser (Moderator), Duncan Kennedy, David Kennedy, Nathaniel Berman (Discussants), Norman Silber and Lawrence Kessler (Commentators) 115 -- Part V Law and Shakespeare 147 -- The Case of The Merchant of Venice: Shylock v. Antonio on Appeal -- 11 Introduction to Interdisciplinarity and the Retrial of Shylock / Susan Tiefenbrun 149 -- 12 The Trial of Shylock from The Merchant of Venice / Peter M. Sander 153 -- 13 Appellant's Brief / Daniel J. Kornstein 171 -- 14 Appellee's Brief / Floyd Abrams 177 -- 15 Appellant's Reply Brief / Daniel J. Kornstein 185 -- 16 Shylock v. Antonio on Appeal: The Deliberations / Daniel J. Kornstein 189 -- 17 Thoughts of a Literary Judge / Howard Kissel 213 -- 18 Shylock on Appeal / Peter J. Alscher 217 -- Part VI Law and Art 237 -- Law and Architecture -- 19 Cass Gilberts's United States Supreme Court and the Comprehensive Planning Deal / Barbara S. Christen 239
Summary "Based on an ... interdisciplinary seminar on Law and the Arts which was held at Hofstra University School of Law ... on October 30, 1996"--Foreword
Notes "Based on an ... interdisciplinary seminar on Law and the Arts which was held at Hofstra University School of Law ... on October 30, 1996"--Foreword
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Merchant of Venice -- Congresses.
Law and art -- United States -- Congresses.
Arts -- Censorship -- United States -- Congresses.
Copyright and electronic data processing -- United States -- Congresses.
Law and literature -- Congresses.
Critical legal studies -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Aufsatzsammlung
Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Tiefenbrun, Susan W.
Hofstra University.
LC no. 98014237
ISBN 0313308055 alkaline paper