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Legal Narratives

European Perspectives on U.S. Law in Cultural Context

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  • © 2009
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Editors:
  1. Gudrun M. Grabher

    1. University of Innsbruck, Austria

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  2. Anna Gamper

    1. University of Innsbruck, Austria

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  • Addresses a large audience, particularly in the USA and Austria/Europe
  • Addressed to law (especially constitutional law, international law, European law, criminal law, civil law, and corporate law); political science, American studies, English studies, and related cultural sciences
  • No book in this field offers a similarly interdisciplinary profile
  • Bridges the gap between the Anglo-American and Continental European legal worlds (especially that of Austria), as well as between law and the humanities
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gudrun M. Grabher Introduction G. M. Grabher The U. S. legal system is, perhaps, one of the most multi-facetted and most complex ones. This collection of essays intends to offer views and perspectives from outside the United States on various aspects and issues of American law. The contributors are all members, in one form or another, of Innsbruck University in Austria, being of Austrian nationality. They include faculty of the Law School and of the American Studies Department as well as Ph. D. students at the latter Department. Since the focus is on American law, it may at first not seem surprising that not only legal scholars but also ‘Americanists’ are represented in this volume. And yet, this particular combination of contributors requires explanation. Over the past two decades a number of research fields explicitly designed and defined as inter- or transdisciplinary have been established at various American universities. Two such fields are medical humanities and law and the humanities. It is the latter that provided the incentive for this volume of critical essays. A few years ago the American Studies Department at Innsbruck University approached the U. S. Embassy in Vienna with the idea of expanding its curriculum – beyond its primary identity as cultural studies – so as to also include such interdisciplinary perspectives. No such attempt at redefining American Studies had been, and has been made anywhere at other Austrian universities.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VI
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  2. Introduction

    • Gudrun M. Grabher
    Pages 1-4

  3. On the Road to Constitutionalism: “Publius” and a Continental European Searchlight

    • Anna Gamper
    Pages 5-27

  4. The American Declaration of Independence: Narrative Horizons of a Text in Con-Text

    • Gudrun M. Grabher
    Pages 29-56

  5. Coping with Disaster: Redress for Damage Caused by Natural Catastrophes on Both Sides of the Atlantic

    • Bernhard A. Koch, Dagmar Hinghofer-Szalkay
    Pages 57-76

  6. Hate Crime Legislation versus the Legacy of Lynch Law in the U.S.: The Struggle against a Biased Popular Justice

    • Karin Walpurga Köll
    Pages 77-100

  7. Law and (Dis)Order: The Janus-Faced Myth of the Lawman in U.S. History and Popular Culture

    • Andreas Leisner
    Pages 101-121

  8. The U.S. Supreme Court and International Law —A Liaison dangereuse? Reflections on Medellín v. Texas

    • Andreas Th. Müller
    Pages 123-158

  9. The U.S. Jury System: An Insight from a Civil Lawyer’s Perspective

    • Verena Murschetz
    Pages 159-174

  10. The Jury as a Means of Equity in John Grisham’s A Time to Kill

    • Philipp Prantl
    Pages 175-194

  11. Increased Competences through Development of the Law: The European Court of Justice and the U.S. Supreme Court

    • Günter H. Roth, Simone Wasserer
    Pages 195-211

  12. Sentenced to “Storification”: A Trial on Legal Narratives

    • Claudia Schwarz
    Pages 213-238

  13. Conclusion

    • Anna Gamper
    Pages 239-242

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 243-243
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  • University of Innsbruck, Austria

    Gudrun M. Grabher, Anna Gamper

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