Law and Popular Culture III
The Roundtable aims to bring together multiple approaches to the place of law in popular culture.
Motivation
The Roundtable will bring out the manner in which popular culture affects law and the understanding by actors in society. Two previous editions were hosted at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University (2019 and 2020), and offered 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.
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Programme
09:00 Agustín Parise
Opening Remarks
Keynote Address
09:05 Jan Smits
Why Law and Popular Culture?
09:40 Break
First Session
Moderator: Jana Trifunović
09:45 Parthabi Kanungo
Jus in bello and the Treatment of Non-Combatants in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida
10:00 Discussion
10:15 Anna de Jong
Less Love, More Law - Rereading Jane Austen
10:30 Discussion
10:45 Anna-Sophie Hochgürtel
Hydeing’ Dr. Jekyll’s Legacy: Testamentary Validity and Enforcement in Late Victorian London
11:00 Discussion
11:15 Break
Second Session
Moderator: Nick Frijns
11:35 Franco Peirone
Law and Justice in Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables and Quatreving-treize
11:50 Discussion
12:05 Arto Jaakkola
In Cold Blood: The M’Naghten Rules and Introduction of Psychological Evidence in the American Midwest of the 1950s
12:20 Discussion
12:35 Sarah Schoenmaekers
The Influence of Popular Culture on Market Participants in the Cultural Sector: Is there Need and Room for Regulation?
12:50 Discussion
13:05 Break
13:10 General Discussion
Moderator: Eline Couperus
13:25 Arthur Willemse
Closing Remarks
13:30 End of activities