Law and magic : King Arthur and the making of a myth / Raffaele Cutolo. Fabulous law: legal fables / Marett Leiboff -- The wondrous (baroque) gender revolution, or the rise and fall of the empire of fairies / Luis Gómez Romero -- The haunting memory of law: mystic fables, uncanny presences and normative spectrality / Cristina Costantini -- Political sublime: heterodoxy and jurisdiction at the origin of modernity / Pier Giuseppe Monateri -- Mystical bodies and bodies of law: on juridical theology and the (re)foundations of the west / Riccardo Baldissone -- Narrators of fables or framers of the constitution? the acallam na senórach beyond time, place, and law / Matteo Nicolini -- Playing with conventions and traditions: the modern legal fairy tale / Doris Pichler -- The good old rule, the catspaw and a two-headed baby / Marett Leiboff -- Ethics and law at play on the football pitch / Giuseppe Rossi and Paola Carbone -- Earth jurisprudence and the myth of Gaia / Valentina Adami -- Archetypes and family models / Alessandra Cordiano -- Divorce and the failure of law in Dickens's hard times / Anna Enrichetta Soccio -- Bluebeard and the polygamous family / Maria Caterina Baruffi -- Fables of the holocaust : Hansel and Gretel / Daniela Carpi -- Let the right law in : true blood, the twilight saga and the passage as lex vampirica / William P. MacNeil -- Tales of terror : the pillowman and the violence of the virtual / Sara Soncini -- The fable of the bees in contemporary penal law / Filippo Sgubbi -- Summons, prophecies, possession and madness : intersections of law and magic in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell / Roxanne Barbara Doerr -- An invented executive : the Ministry of Magic in Harry Potter / Giovanna Ligugnana -- Law and magic : King Arthur and the making of a myth / Raffaele Cutolo.
Summary:
"What can fables and fairytales tell us of law, its practices and ideals? Drawing on real and metaphorical literary and jurisprudential accounts and practices of law, this volume reveals that law has recourse to fables and fairytales as moral exempla, as a new form of law and literature, found in diverse sources ranging from the fables of de La Fontaine and fairytales of Perrault and Grimm to the modern fairytales of 'True blood' and 'Harry Potter.'"-- Back cover.
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