Law & Popular Culture Research Network

Welcome to the Law & Popular Culture Research Network (LPC-RN) homepage. LPC-RN is a research initiative based at Maastricht University that brings together activities focused on the intersection of law and popular culture. Our goal is to bring together diverse approaches to the place of law in popular culture, and to explore the manner in which popular culture affects law and its understanding by actors in society. LPC-RN seeks to investigate alternative perspectives on law and the underlying value that non-conventional approaches contribute to a deeper understanding of the social sciences.

Call for papers

Law and Popular Culture Roundable VII - Deadline 3 February 2025

Law and Popular Culture VII aims to bring together multiple approaches to the place of law in
popular culture. Further, the Roundtable wants to bring out the manner in which popular culture
affects law and its understanding by actors in society. The Roundtable explores law in different
environments, such as art and entertainment, as well as cultural movements that constitute
phenomena to which the law must relate. Furthermore, besides these general areas within our
social reality, the Roundtable is also a space to discuss the legal significance of certain objects that
either defy or deplete categorisation.

Are you working or studying at Universiteit Maastricht? Don’t miss this opportunity to contribute to the upcoming Roundtable VII. 

More information and requirements can be found here.

Members

Become a member

Membership in our network will enable you to be informed about our activities and projects. We also welcome your suggestions for potential speakers or themes for our activities that would fit under the Law & Popular Culture umbrella. 

Additionally, as a member, you will have the opportunity to share projects and to foster synergy across departments/initiatives within the LPC-RN.

Are you interested in joining the Network? Please contact a member of the Steering Committee.

Pillars

The LPC-RN is anchored in the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University by three pillars: the annual Roundtable, the Lecture Series, and the events on Law in Stories (LiSt). These three pillars of the LPC-RN collectively foster a strong academic community that shares an interest in the comprehensive exploration of the intersection between law and popular culture.

Research Output

Our members engage in different ways of sharing their research output. These manifestations are represented in PhD projects, monographs, scientific chapters and articles, blog entries, conference papers, and cultural exhibits. These are the 10 latest publications by the LPC-RN members. Want to see all of them? Click 'see more research output'.

 

Latest research output

27.11.2024 - Parise, Agustín - “‘Hacemos las tortillas con maíz, no con paciencia’ La función social de la propiedad en ¡Viva Zapata! (1952)”, 6º Encuentro Internacional sobre Cine, Series y Derecho, Universidad de Chile (Santiago, Chile).24.07.2024 - Solaro, Livia - “Case Review: Getty v. Italy (2024)”, Center for Art Law.
13.11.2024 - Solaro, Livia - “Il museo etnografico di Ginevra riapre con una nuova missione di decolonizzazione”, Artribune.15.05.2024 - Parise, Agustín - “Legal Science and Fairy Tales: A Fruitful Combination”, Opening of the FASoS Pop-up Edition of the Exhibit Once Upon a Law: The Grimm Brothers’ Stories, Language, and Legal Culture, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (Maastricht, The Netherlands).
11.11.2024 - Solaro, Livia - “Case note: de Csepel v. Republic of Hungary [2024] 2024 WL 4345811 (United States District Court, District of Columbia)”, The Institute of Art and Law.07.05.2024 - Solaro, Livia - “La Chimera + Panel discussion”, Lumière Cinema (Maastricht, The Netherlands).
07.11.2024 - Parise, Agustín - “Cinema as a Mirror of the Law”, LiSt Law in Stories Session, Maastricht University (Maastricht, The Netherlands).18.03.2024 - Solaro, Livia - “The Law of Restitution: Ethical Ambiguities of the Italian Approach.”, From Linguistic Innovation to Cultural Transformation: Unpacking the Implications of ICOM's New Museum Definition in Italy and France, University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy).
21.09.2024    Solaro, Livia & Yu, Haiyang - “The Under-protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage: Some Considerations in Light of Getty v. Italy”, International Maritime and Transport Law Course, Inter-University Centre (IUC) Dubrovnik (Dubrovnik, Croatia).27.01.2024 - Parise, Agustín - “Ius ad bellum e ius in bello en la “Historia de la Guerra” (1942-1946) de Lino Palacio”, VIII Encuentro Internacional Ficción y Derecho, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

 

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10.01.2024

Parise, Agustín;

Rabinovich-Berkman, Ricardo & Somovilla, Claudia

“Diálogo de Café: La Historia del Derecho y los Pasados Ficticios”, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

29.11.2023

Parise, Agustín

“La omnipresencia de la codificación del derecho: Reflexiones desde la industria cinematográfica y televisiva de los EE. UU. durante el siglo XX”, 5º Encuentro Internacional sobre Cine, Series y Derecho, Universidad de Chile (Santiago, Chile)

25.09.2023

Parise, Agustín

“Censura de Les Misérables (1862) en la primera mitad del siglo XX: La épica travesía de Jean Valjean entre códigos e índices”, Arte y Derecho en Girona, Universitat de Girona (Girona, Spain)

19.07.2023

Parise, Agustín

&

Willemse, Arthur

“Manifestaciones bioéticas en La Lección de Anatomía de Rembrandt y en el diseño del Teatro Anatómico del Archiginnasio de Bolonia”, Artes Visuales y Bioética, Academia Nacional de Medicina (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

23.06.2023

Parise, Agustín

“‘What is that sticker sticking on my cultural object?’ Censorship of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables (1862) in the 1934 Motion Picture Production Code and the 1948 Index Librorum Prohibitorum”, Roundtable on Law and Popular Culture V, Maastricht University (Maastricht, The Netherlands)

23.06.2023

Solaro, Livia

“A Legal Education from the Marvel Universe: From Daredevil to She-Hulk”, Roundtable on Law and Popular Culture V, Maastricht University (Maastricht, The Netherlands)

23.06.2023

Willemse, Arthur

“Nihilism and Democracy: Moral Argument and Hypocrisy in Populist Political Discourse”, Roundtable on Law and Popular Culture V, Maastricht University (Maastricht, The Netherlands)

09.03.2023

Solaro, Livia

“ ‘Arte Liberata’ – An Exhibition to Investigate the Italian Struggle to Protect the Country’s Cultural Heritage during World War II”, Center for Art Law, available at https://itsartlaw.org/2023/03/09/wywh-arte-liberata-an-exhibition-to-investigate-the-italian-struggle-to-protect-the-countrys-cultural-heritage-during-world-war-ii/

01.10.2022

Parise, Agustín

“Legal Science through the Lens of Fairy Tales”, Maastricht University Faculty of Law Blogs, available at https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/blog/2022/10/legal-science-through-lens-fairy-tales

09.09.2022

Parise, Agustín

“Fairy Tales as Mirrors of Local Rules”, Fairy Tales. Once Upon a Law: Three Voices | One Book, PAS – Pleasure, Art & Science (Maastricht, The Netherlands)

01.09.2022-22.12.2022

Sitzia, Emilie; Parise, Agustín; Essers, Odin;  Prinz, Melissa;  Strüder, Kevin; Nelson, Olivia; 

Moula, Konstantina; 

Briese, Katja  & 

Gasparri, Elena

“Once Upon a Law: The Grimm Brothers’ Stories, Language, and Legal Culture”, Exhibit at Maastricht University (Maastricht, The Netherlands), available also at https://onceuponalaw.org/

31.08.2022

Parise, Agustín

“Legal Science through the Lens of Fairy Tales”, Opening of the Exhibit Once Upon a Law: The Grimm Brothers’ Stories, Language, and Legal Culture, Maastricht University (Maastricht, The Netherlands)

08.07.2022

Solaro, Livia

“All that glitters is not gold: A critical look at the double-sided effects of Nazi looted art litigation in US courts”, Courts as an Arena for Societal Change, Leiden University (Leiden, The Netherlands)

17.06.2022

Couperus, Eline 

“House & Techno Culture Shaping Law: How the Dancefloor Hurts and Heals ”, Roundtable on Law and Popular Culture IV, Maastricht University (Maastricht, The Netherlands)

17.06.2022

Solaro, Livia

“From Walt Disney to Stan Lee: A Comparative Analysis of the Shady Copyright Issues behind Comic Book Legends”, Roundtable on Law and Popular Culture IV, Maastricht University (Maastricht, The Netherlands)

2022

Solaro, Livia

Il saccheggio nazista dell’arte europea. Uno Sguardo Comparatistico sul Contenzioso Transnazionale nei Restitution Cases, Franco Angeli ed., Milan, 176 pp.

22.10.2021

Parise, Agustín

“A Night in the Museum with Defoe, Covid-19, and the Resilience of Law”, Museumnacht Maastricht, Boekhandel Dominicanen (Maastricht, The Netherlands)

01.09.2021– ongoing

Solaro, Livia

“Nazi-looted art litigation as restitution of cultural property: the US approach in a comparative perspective”, PhD Project,  Maastricht University (Maastricht, The Netherlands)

31.07.2021

Parise, Agustín

“El derecho entre los Yahoos en la literatura de Jonathan Swift y Jorge L. Borges”, VIIEncuentro Internacional Ficción y Derecho, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

01.03.2021

Parise, Agustín

“Defoe, Covid-19, and Resilience of Law and Society”, Maastricht University Faculty of Law Blogs, available at https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/blog/2021/03/defoe-covid-19-and-resilience-law-and-society 

2021

Parise, Agustín

¿Has oído hablar del Código Napoleón? Codificación y acceso a justicia en la adaptación cinematográfica de Un tranvía llamado Deseo (1951)”, 2 Revista Cine, Televisión y Derecho, pp. 18-33

2021

Parise, Agustín

“Notas sobre la ficción como herramienta para la enseñanza del derecho”, 7 Anamorphosis.  Revista Internacional de Direito e Literatura, pp. 355-374

04.12.2020

Parise, Agustín

“`¿Has oído hablar del Código Napoleón?´ Codificación y acceso a justicia en la adaptación cinematográfica de Un tranvía llamado Deseo (1951)”, II Encuentro Internacional sobre Cine, Series y Derecho, Universidad de Chile (Santiago, Chile)

27.10.2020

Parise, Agustín

“Resilience of Law and Society: Current Takeaways from Defoe's 1772 Journal of the Plague Year”, Law Talks Series, Maastricht University (Maastricht, The Netherlands)

01.08.2020

Parise, Agustín

“`Todo el mundo estaba en paz; no había trabajo para los hombres de leyes:´ La omnipresencia del derecho en El Diario del Año de la Peste (1722) de Daniel Defoe”, VI Encuentro Internacional Ficción y Derecho, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

18.06.2020

Willemse, Arthur

“Judgement in Regina Ullmann’s The Country Road and Franz Kafka’s The Trial”, Roundtable on Law and Popular Culture II, Maastricht University (Maastricht, The Netherlands)

01.06.2020

Parise, Agustín

“An Open Laboratory for Characters and Scenarios! The Value of Law and Literature in a PBL Environment”, Maastricht University Faculty of Law Blogs, available at  https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/blog/2020/06/open-laboratory-characters-and-scenarios

27.07.2019

Parise, Agustín

“John H. Wigmore, 100 clásicos y novelas jurídicas hispanas”, V Encuentro Internacional Ficción y Derecho, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

18.04.2019

Parise, Agustín

“John H. Wigmore (1863-1943) and Ignacio Winizky (1910-1988): Drawing Pan-American Parallels on the 
Origins of the Law and Literature Movement”, Roundtable on Law and Popular Culture, Maastricht University (Maastricht, The Netherlands)

29.07.2017

Parise, Agustín

Ius Commune y la Vida de un Coloso: La Obra Teatral como Herramienta para la Enseñanza de la Historia del Derecho”, III Encuentro Internacional Ficción y Derecho, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

30.07.2016

Parise, Agustín

“La ficción como herramienta para la enseñanza del derecho: Escenarios ficticios, método socrático y aprendizaje basado en problemas”, II Encuentro Internacional Ficción y Derecho, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

01.08.2015

Parise, Agustín

“Los ‘Cuentos’ de los Hermanos Grimm: Un Crisol para el Derecho, la Historia y el Folklore”, I Encuentro Internacional Ficción y Derecho, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

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