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Title

Legal narratives : European perspectives on U.S. law in cultural context / Gudrun M. Grabher, Anna Gamper, eds.

Publication

[Germany] : Springer Verlag, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Grabher, Gudrun.
• Gamper, Anna.

Description

vi, 242 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Culture and law > United States
• Sociological jurisprudence > United States

Note

• Editors: Gudrun M. Grabher, Anna Gamper.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

On the road to consitutionalism: "Publius" and a continental European searchlight / Anna Gamper -- The American 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 U.S.: 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 U.S. Supreme Court and international law: a "liaison dangereuse"?: reflections on Medellín v. Texas --The U.S. 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 competencies 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 Gamper.

ISBN

• 9783211928172
• 3211928170

LCCN

2009497469

OCLC

• ocn401156825
• SCSB-1535382

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Princeton University Library