Law and the Arts

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This interdisciplinary study examines the relationships between law and the humanities. The goal of the essays is to promote exchanges of ideas in such diverse, but related fields as law, literature, film, theater, communication, art, and architecture and to inspire readers to think about the laws hidden in the interstices of the arts as well as the artistry of the law. On the one side, chapters focus attention on legal restraints in the media, censorship of the arts, copyright protection issues on the Internet, and artists' rights in the past and in the present cyberspace era. On the other, the role played by law in literature and theater is examined, and one essay explores the architectural design of the U.S. Supreme Court and how its architects fit into political history. A collection valuable to scholars, researchers, and lay readers alike with interests in the relationships between law and the humanities.

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"Readers looking for an exploration of the complexities of the relationship of law and art as well as an exploration of the past and future of that relationship will find it in Law and the Arts, which contains articles on topics as diverse as literary expression in cyberspace. It is unusual and especially valuable in bringing together scholarship on literature and on other modes of artistic expression....[M]any in law and the humanities will find that this edited collection is a wonderful resource."-Choice
Overall this volume takes bits from the other sides of our lives as lawyers. It reminds us that law was never the refuge of mere mechanics. The arts and humanities are inescapably a part of us and often animate our work in the profession. Perhaps some of us knew this before applying to law school, but forgot the message along the way. For this reminder we are grateful to Susan Tiefenbrun and her collegues.-New York Law Journal
Readers looking for an exploration of the complexities of the relationship of law and art as well as an exploration of the past and future of that relationship will find it in Law and the Arts, which contains articles on topics as diverse as literary expression in cyberspace. It is unusual and especially valuable in bringing together scholarship on literature and on other modes of artistic expression....[M]any in law and the humanities will find that this edited collection is a wonderful resource.-Choice
"Overall this volume takes bits from the other sides of our lives as lawyers. It reminds us that law was never the refuge of mere mechanics. The arts and humanities are inescapably a part of us and often animate our work in the profession. Perhaps some of us knew this before applying to law school, but forgot the message along the way. For this reminder we are grateful to Susan Tiefenbrun and her collegues."-New York Law Journal

Author Bio

SUSAN TIEFENBRUN is the Director of International Law Programs, the Administrative Director of the Center for Communication Law and Technology, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Hofstra University School of Law. She taught French literature at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College for more than twenty years before becoming a lawyer, and she has written extensively in the field of law and literature.