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755. Common Property Sense.

Author

Schwartz, John

Subjects
*LAW & culture, *NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity," by Lawrence Lessig.

Published
2004

758. Laws and Custom in the Steppe (Book).

Author

Brower, Daniel

Subjects
*LAW & culture, *NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book 'Law and Custom in the Steppe: The Kazakhs of the Middle Horde and Russian Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century,' by Virginia Martin.

Published
2002
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759. Peaceful Revolution (Book).

Author

Willrich, Michael

Subjects
*LAW & culture, *NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book 'Peaceful Revolution: Constitutional Change and American Culture From Progression to the New Deal,' by Maxwell Bloomfield.

Published
2002
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760. Mining music and law for original meanings.

Author

Holland, Bernard

Subjects
*LAW & culture, *STATUTORY interpretation, *INTENTION
Abstract

Notes an April 1998 conclave called `Modes of Law: Music and Legal Theory,' sponsored by the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, with presentations at the New School for Social Research's Jazz Performance Space in New York City. Topics that will be covered; Australian legal scholar Desmond Manderson's consideration of the legal validity of deathbed declarations, which he compares to Sussmayr's completion of Mozart's `Requiem.'

Published
1998

761. Legal eagles fly high through TV airwaves.

Author

Smillie, Dirk

Subjects
*LAW & culture, *TELEVISION programs
Abstract

Looks at television programs about legal proceedings. Legal dramas like `Ally McBeal,' `Michael Hayes' and `The Practice'; Reality-based legal series like `Judge Judy' and `The People's Court'; The role that Court TV has played in the rising popularity of shows about the legal profession; The golden age of legal shows during the 1980s with the original `People's Court' and `L.A. Law.'

Published
1997

764. Reviews: Social Control and the Law.

Author

Richards, Stephen C.

Subjects
LAW & culture, NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "Shifting the Blame: How Victimization Became a Criminal Defense," by Saundra Davis Westervelt.

Published
2000

765. The Plessy Case (Book Review).

Author

Duram, James C.

Subjects
*LAW & culture, *NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book 'The Plessy Case: A Legal-Historical Interpretation,' by Charles A. Lofgren.

Published
1988
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771. A Walk on the Dark Side of the NBA.

Author

Williams, Kam

Subjects
LAW & culture, NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "Out of Bounds: Inside the NBA"s Culture of Rape, Violence and Crime," by Jeff Benedict.

Published
2005

772. Crime and Law in Media Culture (Book).

Author

Linder, Joachim

Subjects
*LAW & culture, *NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "Crime and Law in Media Culture," by Sheila Brown.

Published
2003

773. Law in Motion: Law and Culture.

Author

Merchant, Vasant V.

Subjects
LAW & culture, NONFICTION
Abstract

The article reviews the book "Law in Motion: Law and Culture," edited by Roger Blanpain.

Published
2002

775. When Law Goes Pop (Book).

Author

Browne, Ray

Subjects
*LAW & culture, *NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book 'When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line Between Law and Popular Culture,' by Richard K. Sherwin.

Published
2000

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