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Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular CultureFriday, September 25, 2009 This symposium explores law’s representation and consumption in film, television and literature. Panelists draw from historical, sociological and cultural analysis as well as legal theory to help understand law within the framework of popular culture. The focus veers away from arguing the accuracy of law’s presentation in popular culture and settles squarely on the impact that popular culture has on law and law on popular culture. "Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture" brings together legal scholars from across the country to consider these key questions:Why is law such a ubiquitous theme in popular culture? How and why do those representations circulate as they do? Who consumes these representations and to what effect? 
Organized by Professor Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst and Justice Hugo L. Black Visiting Senior Faculty Scholar at the University of Alabama School of Law.
Panel includes:Desmond Robert A. MandersonCanada Research Chair in Law and Discourse McGill University Anna McCarthy Associate Professor Tisch School of Arts at New York University Naomi Mezey Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Center Laurie Ouellette Professor, Minnesota University Richard K. Sherwin Director, Visual Persuasion Project New York Law School |
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