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Popular Culture and Legal Pluralism: Narrative as law. By Wendy A. Adams

Neacsu, Dana

Wendy Adams’ book is published in Routledge's “Law, Justice, and Power” series, edited by Austin Sarat. Like Sarat, Adams, who teaches law at McGill University, belongs to the school of "cultural studies of law". Thus, her writing is refreshingly cosmopolitan and interdisciplinary. Her project is to build a “legal narrative,” which is a framework for popular culture as law, where illegal acts could easily become re-imagined in an alternative legality. She argues that “legal texts originating with the state may well be of less significance in creating legal meaning in our lives than the representations of law in popular culture.”

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International Journal of Legal Information
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/jli.2017.43

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Diamond Law Library
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July 25, 2018