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Literature Alongside Law As A Contemporary Paradigm, Shulamit Almog

Shulamit Almog

This article presents and evaluates two paradigms and their relevance within the law and literature discourse. According to the first one, The Global law paradigm, the law appears as a huge web or as a unified and orderly meta-network, which encompasses human experience in all realms, and provides a normative response for every aspect of it. This paradigm may be set against an alternative perception, the paradigm of literature alongside law. Within the framework of this paradigm, vulnerable parts of the law, some of its false pretenses as well as the hidden processes shaping it are exposed. Next, is the …