The Roundtable will bring together multiple approaches to the place of law in popular culture.

Motivation

The Roundtable will bring together multiple approaches to the place of law in popular culture. Further, the Roundtable will show the manner in which popular culture affects law and the understanding by actors in society. An earlier roundtable was hosted at UM in 2019, offering a forum to discuss approaches to this area of study. Other experiences at UM include MaRBLe Projects, directed by Jan Smits (2015) and by Agustín Parise (2020), gathering papers by students on alternative perceptions of law. The Roundtable aims to trigger further interest on this area of study, alerting on the value that non-conventional approaches to law offer to the better understanding of social sciences.

Organization

This event is organized by Agustín Parise and Arthur Willemse, with the support of MaRBLe Research Based Learning.

Programme

First Session

Moderator: Nick Frijns

09:00   Arthur Willemse 
Opening Remarks

09:05   Sofia Ghezzi
The Inviolability of Shylock’s Bond: A look into Sixteenth-Century Venetian Contract Law through Shakespeare’s Eyes
09:25   Discussion  

09:40   Anna Pivaty
Revisiting the Idea of Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov as a Critique of (Western) Adversarial Justice
10:00    Discussion

10:15    Léa Schumacker
Witnesses before Criminal Courts in Alice in Wonderland and Victorian England
10:35   Discussion

10:50    Coffee Break
 

Second Session

Moderator: Anna de Jong

11:20    Arthur Willemse
Judgement in Regina Ullmann's The Country Road and Franz Kafka's The Trial: A Messianic Diptych
11:40    Discussion

11:55    Gustavo Arosemena
Borges' Deutsches Requiem and the Inversion of Justice
12:15    Discussion

12:30   Nathalie Alquati Bonisoli
L’étranger by Albert Camus: Evaluating the Colonialist and Racist Dimension of the System of Justice in French Algeria
12:50   Discussion

13:05   General Discussion

13:20    Agustín Parise
Law and Popular Culture II: Closing Remarks or why sequels are needed and should be encouraged?

13:30   End of activities