Law As Performance

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781625343543
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Performance written by Austin Sarat and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In considering law through the lens of performance studies, the contributors in this volume emphasize the embodied, affective, and reiterative qualities that move law off the printed page and into the thick world of lived experience. They consider the blurring of lines between performance and the enactment of law, the transformative exchanges between the law and its many and varied stagings, and the impact or resonance of performativity in situations where innocence and guilt may be determined."--

Author : Julie Stone Peters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192898493
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law as Performance written by Julie Stone Peters and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tirades against legal theatrics are nearly as old as law itself, and yet so is the age-old claim that law must not merely be done: it must be "seen to be done." Law as Performance traces the history of legal performance and spectatorship through the early modern period. Viewing law as the product not merely of edicts or doctrines but of expressive action, it investigates the performances that literally created law: in civic arenas, courtrooms, judges' chambers, marketplaces, scaffolds, and streets. It examines the legal codes, learned treatises, trial reports, lawyers' manuals, execution narratives, rhetoric books, images (and more) that confronted these performances, praising their virtues or denouncing their evils. In so doing, it recovers a long, rich, and largely overlooked tradition of jurisprudential thought about law as a performance practice. This tradition not only generated an elaborate poetics and politics of legal performance. It provided western jurisprudence with a set of constitutive norms that, in working to distinguish law from theatrics, defined the very nature of law. In the crucial opposition between law and theatre, law stood for cool deliberation, by-the-book rules, and sovereign discipline. Theatre stood for deceptive artifice, entertainment, histrionics, melodrama. And yet legal performance, even at its most theatrical, also appeared fundamental to law's realization: a central mechanism for shaping legal subjects, key to persuasion, essential to deterrence, indispensable to law's power, --as it still does today.

Author : Franz Schwarz
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9403526343
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contractual Performance and COVID-19 written by Franz Schwarz and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take its toll, contractual parties have frequently faced significant obstacles in performing their contractual obligations due to unexpected impediments arising from the pandemic and government measures taken in response. This indispensable book – the most comprehensive comparative examination of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on contractual performance – discusses the legal provisions and doctrines available to address these issues. The book examines under what circumstances COVID-19-related impediments may excuse contractual performance or lead to modification or termination of the affected contractual obligations in twelve representative civil and common law jurisdictions – the United States, England and Wales, Singapore, Brazil, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Hong Kong, Costa Rica, China, and Russia. For each country, the book examines the following aspects in depth: the relevant fundamental legal principles; the various legal emergency valves available to an obligor to respond to COVID-19-related events; any remedies available to the obligee; selected examples for specific government measures related to particular types of contracts (e.g., construction, employment, lease agreements); and how the legal framework applies in typical factual scenarios. As further legal and factual developments occur, and with further jurisdictions being added, this publication will continue to be updated both online and in print. The book provides a detailed explanation under what conditions the emergency valves specific to each jurisdiction may apply. It cuts through the seeming complexity of the various legal rules and doctrines in these jurisdictions and shows that they often produce similar results in practice. The book thus opens up a wealth of insights for businesses, practitioners, and academics around the globe by providing an easily accessible analytical framework across key jurisdictions and typical factual scenarios. ‘Definitely mandatory reading for practitioners and academics alike!’ –Klaus Peter Berger, University of Cologne ‘Everyone who has had or is likely to have a brush with a COVID-19-induced legal issue would be well advised to keep this book within arm’s reach.’ – Davinder Singh, Davinder Singh Chambers LLC, Singapore ‘The “holy book” for all those lawyers whose clients become ensnared in the rising attempts to fix legal liability midst the rampant COVID-19.’ – Charles Brower, Twenty Essex, London

Author : Joshua Chambers-Letson
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814771610
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Race So Different written by Joshua Chambers-Letson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2014 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Taking a performance studies approach to understanding Asian American racial subjectivity, Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson argues that the law influences racial formation by compelling Asian Americans to embody and perform recognizable identities in both popular aesthetic forms (such as theater, opera, or rock music) and in the rituals of everyday life. Tracing the production of Asian American selfhood from the era of Asian Exclusion through the Global War on Terror, A Race So Different explores the legal paradox whereby U.S. law apprehends the Asian American body as simultaneously excluded from and included within the national body politic. Bringing together broadly defined forms of performance, from artistic works such as Madame Butterfly to the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in the Cambodian American deportation cases of the twenty-first century, this book invites conversation about how Asian American performance uses the stage to document, interrogate, and complicate the processes of racialization in U.S. law. Through his impressive use of a rich legal and cultural archive, Chambers-Letson articulates a robust understanding of the construction of social and racial realities in the contemporary United States.

Author : Gregory M. Weinstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781641052948
Total Pages : 877 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law of Performance Bonds written by Gregory M. Weinstein and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 877 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lawrence R. Moelmann
Publisher : American Bar Association
ISBN 13 : 9781570737749
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law of Performance Bonds written by Lawrence R. Moelmann and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 1999 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : G. Guterman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137411007
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performance, Identity, and Immigration Law written by G. Guterman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has contemporary American theatre presented so-called undocumented immigrants? Placing theatre artists and their work within a context of on-going debate, Guterman shows how theatre fills an essential role in a critical conversation by exploring the powerful ways in which legal labels affect and change us.

Author : Randy Gordon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000637395
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Performance of Law written by Randy Gordon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers how law is always enacted, or performed, in ways that can be analyzed in relation to fiction, theatre, and other dramatic forms. Of necessity, lawyers and judges need to devise techniques to make rules respond situationally. The performance of law supplements, or it extends the reach of, the law-as-written. And, in this respect, the act of lawyering is in many ways an instantiation of acts often associated with, for example, literature and the plastic and performing arts. Combining legal theory and legal practice, this book maintains that the modes of enquiry found in, and applied to, novels, paintings, and plays can help us understand how things like legal arguments and trials work—or don’t. As such, and through the examination of a wide range of both historical and fictional legal cases, the book pursues an interdisciplinary analysis of how law is performed; and, moreover, how legal performances can be accomplished ethically. This book will appeal to scholars and students in sociolegal studies, legal theory, and jurisprudence, as well as those teaching and training in legal practice.

Author : Lars Meyer
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783631609934
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Non-performance and Remedies Under International Contract Law Principles and Indian Contract Law written by Lars Meyer and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The survey compares the rules on contractual non-performance and remedies under the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, the Principles of European Contract Law, and Indian statutory contract law (including the Indian Contract Act, 1872). Given that most Indian statutes were derived from English law and may therefore be viewed as «codified common law», this comparison may contribute to the question of whether, especially in view of contract law harmonisation in the EU, the civil-law and common-law traditions could be merged in a common code. Moreover, it may help identify legal differences that are relevant to doing business between India and Europe. The general conclusion of the survey is that the Principles and Indian statutory contract law share a close proximity especially because many of their provisions on non-performance and remedies appear to be derived from the same concepts and also provide for very similar consequences.

Author : Janwillem Oosterhuis
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9004196056
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Specific Performance in German, French and Dutch Law in the Nineteenth Century written by Janwillem Oosterhuis and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates the influence of early human rights and mass industrialisation on the right to (physically) enforce performance of obligations in France, the German territories and the Netherlands during the nineteenth century. It provides background information to the harmonisation of a controversial concept in European Private Law.