Law and Popular Culture IV
The Roundtable aims to bring together multiple approaches to the place of law in popular culture.
Motivation
The Roundtable wants to bring out the manner in which popular culture affects law and its understanding by actors in society. Over the last three years the Roundtable has become a relied upon forum, within the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University, to discuss approaches to this area of study. The Roundtable explores law in different environments, such as art and entertainment, as well as cultural movements as phenomena to which the law must relate.
The Roundtable aims to trigger further interest on this area of study, underlining the value that non-conventional approaches to law offer to the better understanding of social sciences.
Organization
This event is organized by Agustín Parise and Arthur Willemse, with the support of MaRBLe Research Based Learning and de Department of Foundations and Methods of Law.
Programme
09:00 Arthur Willemse
Opening Remarks
Keynote Address
09:05 Lars van Vliet
The Crimean Gold Case
09:40 Break
First Session
Moderator: Antonia Waltermann
09:45 Marina Veljković
Dostoevsky v the Law: Crime and Punishment as a Critique of the Justice System in Tsarism
10:00 Discussion
10:15 Eline Couperus
House & Techno Culture Shaping Law: How the Dancefloor Hurts and Heals
10:30 Discussion
10:45 Livia Solaro
From Walt Disney to Stan Lee: A Comparative Analysis of the Shady Copyright Issues behind Comic Book Legends
11:00 Discussion
11:15 Break
Second Session
Moderator: Gustavo Arosemena
11:35 Emma Pecqueux
Native Son and the Impossible Task of Defending an African-American Accused in 1930s Chicago
11:50 Discussion
12:05 André Nunes Chaib
Law, Movements, and Literature: or Why We Must Read James Baldwin Today
12:20 Discussion
12:35 Louise Devliegher
The Handmaid’s Tale: Reproductive Rights in Abortion Law through the Lens of 20th Century Romanian and US Law
12:50 Discussion
13:05 Break
13:10 General Discussion
13:25 Agustín Parise
Closing Remarks
13:30 End of activities