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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Porsdam, Helle, 1956- Legally speaking. Amherst [Mass.] : University of Massachusetts Press, c1999 (OCoLC)742664403 |
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| 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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