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Legal Performance Good and Bad
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The notion of performance and performativity have become central terms in the discussion of legal identity over the past decade or two, and performance and theatricality figure in a number of theoretical frameworks as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
“Performance” and “performativity” have become central terms in the discussion of legal identity over the past decade or two, and “performance” and “theatricality” figure in a number of theoretical...read more
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Disentangling Law: The Practice of Bracketing
TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop Michel Callon's concept of bracketing in relation to law, which is the process of delimiting a sphere within which interactions take place more or less independently of a surrounding context.
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The Hybrid Legal Geographies of a War Crimes Court
Alex Jeffrey,Michaelina Jakala +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the implications of understanding war crime trials as hybrid legal spaces, highlighting the forms of comportment, categorization, and exclusion through which law establishes its legitimacy.
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Genocide Never Sleeps: Living Law at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
TL;DR: This paper provided an alternative account, describing a messy, flawed human process in which legal practitioners faced with novel challenges sought to reconfigure long-standing habits and opinions while maintaining a commitment to "justice".
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Petty Criminality, Gender Bias, and Judicial Practice in Nineteenth-Century Europe
TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that the use of the court as a stage to perform publicly legitimized gender norms did not occur in a correctional court: little opportunity was given to the suspect to insist upon or play with the gender norms that would have influenced his/her position in the assizes, and the lack of interest by the public and journalists in petty criminality also limited the suspect's and magistrates' need to emphasize their compliance with gender norms.
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The Informal Dimension of Judicial Politics: A Relational Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, a relational approach to studying judicial politics in non-western societies is proposed, based on common political interests, ideas, social identity, and even clientelistic obligations.
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Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
Bertolt Brecht,John Willett +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a selection of Bertolt Brecht's critical writing charts the development of his thinking on theatre and aesthetics over four decades, and includes notes and essays on the staging of The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, Mother Courage, Puntila, Galileo and many others of his plays.
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Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot
TL;DR: In this article, Dahlhaus and Whittall present four new interpretations of style and idea in late nineteenth-century music treat Nietzsche's penetrating youthful analysis of the contradictions in Wagner's doctrine; the question of periodicization in ''romantic and ''neo-romantic'' music; the underlying kinship between Brahms's and Wagner's responses to the central musical problems of their time; and the true significance of musical nationalism.
Interpreting Law and Music: Performance Notes on "The Banjo Serenader" and "The Lying Crowd of Jews."
Jack M. Balkin,Sanford Levinson +1 more
TL;DR: In 1992, Charles Mackerras recorded a new version of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado with the Welsh National Opera Orchestra and Chorus as mentioned in this paper, which was immediately hailed by the critics.
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"Literature," the "Rights of Man," and Narratives of Atrocity: Historical Backgrounds to the Culture of Testimony
TL;DR: In response to the horrifying state-sponsored atrocities of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, we have seen the rise of what is essentially a new phenomenon as discussed by the authors, quasi-judicial, quasi-political and quasi-theatrical in nature: the truth commission and other national and international arenas in which victims may bear witness to what they have suffered, and in which the narration of atrocity may serve at once as testimony, redress, and public catharsis.