Legal narratives : European perspectives on U.S. law in cultural context / Gudrun M. Grabher, Anna Gamper, editors.
2009
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Title
Legal narratives : European perspectives on U.S. law in cultural context / Gudrun M. Grabher, Anna Gamper, editors.
Published
Wein ; New York, N.Y. : Springer Verlag, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Call Number
KF379 .L45 2009
ISBN
9783211928172 (hardbound)
3211928170 (hardbound)
3211928170 (hardbound)
Description
vi, 242 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)401156825
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Table of Contents
Introduction / Gudrun M. Grabher
1
On the Road to Constitutionalism: "Publius" and a Continental European Searchlight / Anna Gamper
5
The American Declaration of Independence: Narrative Horizons of a Text in Con-Text / Gudrun M. Grabher
29
Coping with Disaster: Redress for Damage Caused by Natural Catastrophes on Both Sides of the Atlantic / Bernhard A. Koch Dagmar Hinghofer-Szalkay
57
Hate Crime Legislation versus the Legacy of Lynch Law in the U.S.: The Struggle against a Biased Popular Justice / Karin Walpurga Koll
77
Law and (Dis)Order: The Janus-Faced Myth of the Lawman in U.S. History and Popular Culture / Andreas Leisner
101
The U.S. Supreme Court and International Law - A Liaison dangereuse? Reflections on Medellin v. Texas / Andreas Th. Muller
123
The U.S. Jury System: An Insight from a Civil Lawyer's Perspective / Verena Murschetz
159
The Jury as a Means of Equity in John Grisham's A Time to Kill / Philipp Prantl
175
Increased Competences through Development of the Law: The European Court of Justice and the U.S. Supreme Court / Gunter H. Roth Simone Wasserer
195
Sentenced to "Storification": A Trial on Legal Narratives / Claudia Schwarz
213
Conclusion / Anna Gamper
239
List of Authors
243