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Where There Is No Need To Screen Local Justice: Law And Film In Israel, Shulamit Almog
Where There Is No Need To Screen Local Justice: Law And Film In Israel, Shulamit Almog
Shulamit Almog
This chapter describes the minor representation of law in Israeli feature films and demonstrates it by pointing at various films that deal with issues that pertain directly to legal proceeding or legal matters,yet bear merely marginal reference to the legal domain,or avoid it altogether.
Dystopian Narratives And Legal Imagination, Shulamit Almog
Dystopian Narratives And Legal Imagination, Shulamit Almog
Shulamit Almog
This paper is based upon a complementing premise,maintaining that there is also a meaningful linkage between normative systems that are products of law and speculative delineations of dystopias. This linkage derives from the duality pertaining to the utopian/dystopian notion.
When A Robot Can Love - Blade Runner As A Cautionary Tale On Law And Technology, Shulamit Almog
When A Robot Can Love - Blade Runner As A Cautionary Tale On Law And Technology, Shulamit Almog
Shulamit Almog
This paper examines Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner as a cautionary tale relating to the role of law in technology augmented environment.Blade Runner presents a regime that uses law first in order to create beings withe superior abilities and pre-determined longevity, and then to define them as non-human or non-beings, devoid of legal personhood, and thus exploitable.
Representations Of Law And The Nonfiction Novel: Capote's In Cold Blood Revisited, Shulamit Almog
Representations Of Law And The Nonfiction Novel: Capote's In Cold Blood Revisited, Shulamit Almog
Shulamit Almog
The article describes the way in which law-related events are represented in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. Based on a narrative analysis, the paper will posit that In Cold Blood played a particular role in originating and shaping an innovative mode of representing law-related events, a mode that was widely employed since, in various artistic mediums and in popular culture. As the paper further elaborates, Capote’s work paved new ways for challenging the conventional boundaries between “reality” and “fiction” with regard to the representation of law-related events. The paper will also maintain that in addition to its contribution to the …
Between Citizenship, Equality, And Law The Language Of The Summer 2011 Social Protests, Shulamit Almog
Between Citizenship, Equality, And Law The Language Of The Summer 2011 Social Protests, Shulamit Almog
Shulamit Almog
The intersection of law and protest may be perceived as an oxymoron. For many, law symbolizes stability and the maintenance of the socio-political and economic status quo while, at the same time, protecting human rights. Protest, conversely, points to the need to alter and reform the very same status quo, arguing that the conventional means of constructing politics and public policy through legislation and litigation have failed and that democratic and all other perceptions of justice have been halted. Nonethe-less, more than a few protest movements all around the globe have used lawyers, legal arguments, and legal mechanisms to advance …
Prostitution As Exploitation: An Israeli Perspective, Shulamit Almog
Prostitution As Exploitation: An Israeli Perspective, Shulamit Almog
Shulamit Almog
The article presents an alternative approach, which proposes a new legal conceptualization for the prostitution phenomenon. This approach calls for a legislative model which prohibits prostitution and places the onus of punishment and social infamy on the clients. The article applies the Israeli experience to pursue a claim that any attempt to employ the conventional legal doctrines in order to deal with prostitution is doomed to fail.