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In The Aesthetics of International Law, Ed Morgan engages in a literary parsing of international legal texts. In order to demonstrate how these types of legal narratives are imbued with modernist aesthetics, Morgan juxtaposes international legal documents and modern (as well as some immediately pre-...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Morgan, Edward M., 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Law > Language.
Law and literature.
Law and aesthetics.
International law > Language.
LAW > International.
Droit et litterature.
Droit international > Langage.
Droit et esthetique.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Edgar Allan Poe: law and terrorism
  • Henrik Ibsen and Bertolt Brecht: war crimes trials
  • Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot: public international law
  • James Joyce: conflict of laws
  • Franz Kafka: extraterritorial criminal law
  • Mordecai Richler: universal jurisdiction
  • Vladimir Nobokov: extradition to the death penalty
  • Jorge Luis Borges: the break-up of Yugoslavia
  • Thomas Pynchon: envioronmental liability
  • Kurt Vonnegut: the law of war
  • Conclusion: for a new scholarship
  • Epilogue: pound of flesh.

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