Dana M. Britton
Ashgate
Hardback
514
2005
This volume brings together a collection of seminal essays written by leading experts in the fields of law and cultural studies which address the cultural dimension of trials. These essays conceive of trials as sites of legal performance and as critical public spaces in which law both encounters and interacts dialogically with the culture in which it is embedded. Inquiring into the contours of that dialogic relation these essays trace the paths of cultural stories as they circulate in and through trial settings examine how trials emerge out of particular social and historical contexts and suggest ways in which trials themselves as both singular events and generic forms circulate and signify in culture.
Ashgate
Hardback
514
2005
This volume brings together a collection of seminal essays written by leading experts in the fields of law and cultural studies which address the cultural dimension of trials. These essays conceive of trials as sites of legal performance and as critical public spaces in which law both encounters and interacts dialogically with the culture in which it is embedded. Inquiring into the contours of that dialogic relation these essays trace the paths of cultural stories as they circulate in and through trial settings examine how trials emerge out of particular social and historical contexts and suggest ways in which trials themselves as both singular events and generic forms circulate and signify in culture.