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Investing In Culture: Underwater Cultural Heritage And International Investment Law, Valentina S. Vadi
Investing In Culture: Underwater Cultural Heritage And International Investment Law, Valentina S. Vadi
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Underwater cultural heritage (UCH), which includes evidence of past cultures preserved in shipwrecks, enables the relevant epistemic communities to open a window to the unknown past and enrich their understanding of history. Recent technologies have allowed the recovery of more and more shipwrecks by private actors who often retrieve materials from shipwrecks to sell them. Not all salvors conduct proper scientific inquiry, conserve artifacts, and publish the results of the research; more often, much of the salvaged material is sold and its cultural capital dispersed. Because states rarely have adequate funds to recover ancient shipwrecks and manage this material, however, …
Respect My Authority! South Park's Expression Of Legal Ideology And Contribution To Legal Culture, Kimberlianne Podlas
Respect My Authority! South Park's Expression Of Legal Ideology And Contribution To Legal Culture, Kimberlianne Podlas
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
This Article recognizes that television programs outside of the law genre can engage in legal discourse: to wit, South Park. South Park has been called one of the most profane programs on television, as well as one of the most ideological. Indeed, through sophisticated, no-holds-barred satire, South Park contemplates a number of American culture's most complex and contentious legal issues. This Article systematically analyzes the legal ideologies conveyed by South Park, combining an interpretive ethnographic analysis with quantitative content analyses. Ultimately, these examinations reveal that South Park communicates a libertarian ideology of law. In doing so, however, it does not …