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Talkin' 'Bout Law's Generations: Intergenerational Differences In Reading Legal Texts, Marett Leiboff
Talkin' 'Bout Law's Generations: Intergenerational Differences In Reading Legal Texts, Marett Leiboff
Marett Leiboff
This paper describes a project I am currently undertaking which seeks to find out if generational differences affect the reading of legal texts, with the potential to compromise the possibility of textual integrity in law. I am calling this concept ‘intergenerational interpretative dissonance’. Using an empirical study (which is currently on foot), the project is drawing on ‘pop culture’ generations to undertake a quiz-style survey to explore differences in knowledge, history and meanings about non-legal events in order to establish what non-legal knowledge is shared (or not) by different generations of lawyers. The survey is being used to provide background …
"Talkin' 'Bout Law's Generations: An Empirical And Jurisprudential Investigation Into The Reading Of Legal Cases By Different Generations Of Lawyers", Marett Leiboff
Marett Leiboff
The Australian TV comedy quiz show, Talkin’ ‘bout your generation, pits the knowledge of three different teams of generations against each other. Like a highlystrung game of trivial pursuit, the show’s comedy darkly exposes the speed with which knowledge, language and meaning is lost and misinterpreted across and between generations. This pilot study, Talkin’ ‘bout law’s generations takes its cue from its namesake, by discovering if legal interpretation is similarly affected. But the character of legal interpretation being explored is not uni-dimensional, and is instead exploring if (and how) social, political, historical and linguistic knowledge is deployed by its interpreters. …
'Ditto': Law, Pop Culture And Humanities And The Impact Of Intergenerational Interpretative Dissonance, Marett Leiboff
'Ditto': Law, Pop Culture And Humanities And The Impact Of Intergenerational Interpretative Dissonance, Marett Leiboff
Marett Leiboff
Building on Julius Stone's remark that jurisprudence is law's extroversion (or extraversion), this essay explores the consequences that flow from the loss of a shared humanities discourse by lawyers. In adapting the concept of extraversion to those things about us in the world, the essay considers the finding of an empirical study, Law's Gens Project, which revealed a profound, almost seismic shift in what different generational groupings of lawyers know, based in the humanities, placing this point of rupture squarely in the 1970s. Drawing on allusions and cultural references used in judgments, this project reveals how these cultural markers affect …
Alice Through The Wormhole: Reconciling Spatial And Temporal Disjunctions In The Creation Of Content In Australian Media Law, Marett Leiboff
Alice Through The Wormhole: Reconciling Spatial And Temporal Disjunctions In The Creation Of Content In Australian Media Law, Marett Leiboff
Marett Leiboff
Copy of powerpoint presentation to the conference.