Law and Popular Culture: Five Papers on Alternative Perceptions of Justice
132 Pages Posted: 20 Feb 2016
Date Written: February 1, 2016
Abstract
Law and popular culture is an exciting topic at the intersection of law and humanities. This booklet, the result of a Maastricht Research Based Learning project, contains five papers that reflect upon alternative perceptions of justice in popular culture. The papers deal with the law of surrogacy in soap operas, law and musicals, rights for robots in science fiction, the portrayal of law in Erin Brockovich and an inquiry into the principles of contract law in children’s cinema.
Keywords: Law; popular culture
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Smits, Jan M. and Sverdlov, Shahar and Karanikioti, Theano and Kaminska, Katarzyna and Schilling, Viviane and Meurgey, Eve, Law and Popular Culture: Five Papers on Alternative Perceptions of Justice (February 1, 2016). Maastricht European Private Law Institute Working Paper 2016/hors serie, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2734079 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2734079
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