Grabher / Gamper Legal Narratives

European Perspectives on U.S. Law in Cultural Context
2009
ISBN: 978-3-211-92818-9
Verlag: Springer Wien
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 243 Seiten, eBook

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gudrun M. Grabher Introduction G. M. Grabher The U. S. legal system is, perhaps, one of the most multi-facetted and most complex ones. This collection of essays intends to offer views and perspectives from outside the United States on various aspects and issues of American law. The contributors are all members, in one form or another, of Innsbruck University in Austria, being of Austrian nationality. They include faculty of the Law School and of the American Studies Department as well as Ph. D. students at the latter Department. Since the focus is on American law, it may at first not seem surprising that not only legal scholars but also ‘Americanists’ are represented in this volume. And yet, this particular combination of contributors requires explanation. Over the past two decades a number of research fields explicitly designed and defined as inter- or transdisciplinary have been established at various American universities. Two such fields are medical humanities and law and the humanities. It is the latter that provided the incentive for this volume of critical essays. A few years ago the American Studies Department at Innsbruck University approached the U. S. Embassy in Vienna with the idea of expanding its curriculum – beyond its primary identity as cultural studies – so as to also include such interdisciplinary perspectives. No such attempt at redefining American Studies had been, and has been made anywhere at other Austrian universities.

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Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grabher, Gudrun M.

Gamper, Anna

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Legal Narratives: Outside Perspectives on US-American Law in Cultural Context Eds. Gudrun M. Grabher and Anna M. Gamper Introduction (Gudrun M. Grabher) On the Road to Constitutionalism: 'Publius' and a Continental European Searchlight (Anna M. Gamper) The US Declaration of Independence: Narrative Horizons of a Text in Con-Text (Gudrun M. Grabher) Coping with Disaster: Redress for Damage Caused by Natural Catastrophes on Both Sides of the Atlantic (Bernhard A. Koch/Dagmar Hinghofer-Szalkay) Hate Crime Legislation Versus the Legacy of Lynch Law in the US: The Struggle Against A Biased Popular Justice (Karin Walpurga Köll) Law and (Dis)Order: The Janus-Faced Myth of the Lawman in U.S. History and Popular Culture (Andreas Leisner) The US Supreme Court and International Law – A Liaison dangereuse? Reflections on Medellín v. Texas (Andreas Th. Müller) The US-American Jury System - An Insight from a Civil Lawyer's Perspective (Verena Murschetz) The Jury as a Means of Equity in John Grisham’s A Time to Kill (Philipp Prantl) Increased Competences through Development of the Law: The European Court of Justice and the U.S. Supreme Court (Günter H. Roth/Simone Wasserer) Sentenced to ‘Storification’: A Trial on Legal Narratives (Claudia Schwarz) Conclusion (Anna M. Gamper) List of Authors