Intersections of law and culture

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Setting the stage : reading law and culture / Priska Gisler, Sara Steinert Borella and Caroline Wiedmer -- Law as gendered narratives : criminal court decisions against left wing terrorists / Dominique Grisard -- Every picture speaks a thousand words : visualizing judicial authority in the press / Leslie J. Moran -- I hereby find you guilty of cheating : how television judges give personal problems legal dimensions / Anna Krakus -- Female genital cutting, migration and the art of legal boundary maintenance / Caroline Wiedmer -- The actant doesn't speak : configuring a law for research on humans / Priska Gisler -- Giù le mani dalla mia storia : narrating regional identity politics in Ticino / Sara Steinert Borella -- 'That's life' : actualizing the non-lieu as an empty space / Fabio Ferrari -- 'On the study methods of our time' : methodologies of law and literature in the context of interdisciplinary studies / Jeanne Gaakeer -- The reader as thought experiment : character, moral luck and the contingent / Melanie Williams -- Between the rational and the marvellous : Edgar Allan Poe and the counter-enlightenment origins of the modern detective story / Neil Sargent -- Law's life on the screen / Richard K. Sherwin.