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Legally speaking : contemporary American culture and the law

Author: Helle Porsdam
Publisher: Amherst [Mass.] : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1999.
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Porsdam, Helle, 1956-
Legally speaking.
Amherst [Mass.] : University of Massachusetts Press, c1999
(OCoLC)742664403
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Helle Porsdam
ISBN: 1558492070 9781558492073 1558492089 9781558492080
OCLC Number: 40408932
Description: xiii, 269 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: "They Came to Lawyers, You Know, What Can You Do?": American Exceptionalism and Judicial Activism --
Of Human Vanity, Multiculturalism, and American Legalization: Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities --
The Education of Scott Turow: An Analysis of One L, Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, and Pleading Guilty --
Law as Soap Opera and Game Show: The Case of The People's Court --
Race and Law: Promising Alchemical Reaction or Dangerous Trap? --
"Embedding Rights within Relationships": Gender, Law, and Sara Paretsky --
Of Control, Absolutes, and Handmaids: The Late-Twentieth-Century Abortion Debate --
American Law and the Search for Cultural Redemption: A Discussion of William Gaddis's A Frolic of His Own --
To Have or Not to Have "a Project": The Law and Literature Movement.
Responsibility: Helle Porsdam.

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