Subjects:

Art Law

Contents:

Foreword by Stuart Rabinowitz

Preface by Susan Tiefenbrun

Law, the Arts, and Censorship

Legal Restraints at the TV Channeling Controversy by Sondra M. Rubenstein

Censorship in the Arts in the U.S. Today by Leanne Katz

Art and Repression in the McCarthy Era by Howard Fast

The Old Problem of New Communications Technologies: Can We Do Better This Time? by Eric M. Freedman

Law and Cyberspace

Museums without Walls: Promissory Rights and Reproduction in the World of Cyberspace by Susan J. Drucker and Gary Gumpert

Copyright and Cyberspace: Functioning in a Digitally Networked Environment by Donald Fishman

Law and Literature

Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France: Pré

cis of a Talk to the Hofstra Conference by Richard H. Weisberg

A Comment on Richard H. Weisberg's Work on the Vichy Lawyers by Robin West

Legal Fiction and Literary Fiction in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France by Christian Biet

Law, Literary Theory, and Critical Legal Theory: A Forum by Mitchel Lasser, et al.

Law and Shakespeare

Introduction to Interdisciplinarity and the Retrial of Shylock by Susan Tiefenbrun

The Trial of Shylock from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare by Peter M. Sander

Appellant's Brief by Daniel J. Kornstein

Appellee's Brief by Floyd Abrams

Appellant's Reply Brief by Daniel J. Kornstein

Shylock v. Antonio on Appeal: The Deliberations by Daniel J. Kornstein

Thoughts of a Literary Judge by Howard Kissel

Shylock on Appeal by Peter J. Alscher

Law and Art

Cass Gilberts's U.S. Supreme Court and the Comprehensive Planning Ideal by Barbara S. Christen Index

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.