Intersections of Law and Culture

PRISKA GISLER is Director of Research at the Y Institute for Transdisciplinarity, Berne University of the Arts, Switzerland. SARA STEINERT BORELLA and CAROLINE WIEDMER are both Professors of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at Franklin College, Switzerland.

• Introduction: P.Gisler, S.S.Borella & C.Wiedmer.- PART I: THE CODIFICATION OF CULTURE.- Law as Gendered Narratives: Criminal Court Decisions against Left Wing Terrorists; D.Grisard.- Every Picture Speaks a Thousand Words: Visualizing Judicial Authority in the Press; L.Moran.- I Hereby Find you Guilty of Cheating: How Television Judges Give Personal Problems Legal Dimensions; A.Krakus.- Female Genital Cutting, Migration and the Art of Legal Boundary Maintenance; C.Wiedmer.- PART II: PERFORMING RESISTANCE.- The Actant Doesn't Speak: Configuring a Law for Research on Humans; P.Gisler.- Giù le mani dalla mia storia: Performing Regional Identity Politics in Ticino; S.S.Borella.- 'That's Life:' Actualizing the Non Lieu as Empty Space; F.Ferrari.- PART III: SHIFTING EPISTEMOLOGIES .- 'On the Study Methods of our Time:' Methodologies of Law and Literature in the Context of Interdisciplinary Studies; J.Gaakeer.- The Reader as Thought Experiment: Character, Moral Luck and the Contingent; M.Williams.- Between the Rational and the Marvellous: Edgar Allan Poe and the Counter-Enlightenment Origins of the Modern Detective Story; N.Sargent .- Law's Life on the Screen; R.Sherwin.