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Double bill featuring two spoof comedies. 'Epic Movie' (2007) tells
the tale of four fully grown orphans: one the victim of snakes that
attacked her plane, another raised by a kindly Louvre curator, the
third a Mexican 'libre' wrestling refuge, and the last an average
mutant from an 'X'-community. When the curious quartet visits a
sprawling chocolate factory, they stumble across a magical wardrobe
which transports them to the enchanted land of Gnarnia. It seems
that the wondrous fantasy land has recently fallen under the spell
of the evil White Bitch (Jennifer Coolidge), and in order to bring
peace back to Gnarnia these four bumbling mortals will have to join
forces with a charismatic pirate, a painfully sincere group of
aspiring wizards, and one particularly libidinous lion. 'Date
Movie' (2006) stars Alyson Hannigan as a hopeless romantic who has
finally met the man of her dreams Grant Funkyerdoder. But before
they can have their 'Big Fat Greek Wedding', they'll have to 'Meet
the Parents', hook up with 'The Wedding Planner' and contend with
Grant's girlfriend, Andy, a spectacularly beautiful woman who wants
to put a stop to her 'Best Friend's Wedding'.
During the past decade, the rise of online communication has proven
to be particularly fertile ground for academic exploration at the
intersection of law and society. Scholars have considered how best
to apply existing law to new technological problems but they also
have returned to first principles, considering fundamental
questions about what law is, how it is formed and its relation to
cultural and technological change. This collection brings together
many of these seminal works, which variously seek to interrogate
assumptions about the nature of communication, knowledge,
invention, information, sovereignty, identity and community. From
the use of metaphor in legal opinions about the internet, to the
challenges posed by globalization and deterritorialization, to the
potential utility of online governance models, to debates about
copyright, free expression and privacy, this collection offers an
invaluable introduction to cutting-edge ideas about law and society
in an online era. In addition, the introductory essay both situates
this work within the trajectory of law and society scholarship and
summarizes the major fault lines in ongoing policy debates about
the regulation of online activity.
We live in a world of legal pluralism, where a single act or actor
is potentially regulated by multiple legal or quasi-legal regimes
imposed by state, substate, transnational, supranational and
nonstate communities. Navigating these spheres of complex
overlapping legal authority is confusing and we cannot expect
territorial borders to solve all these problems. At the same time,
those hoping to create one universal set of legal rules are also
likely to be disappointed by the sheer variety of human communities
and interests. Instead, we need an alternative jurisprudence, one
that seeks to create or preserve spaces for productive interaction
among multiple, overlapping legal systems by developing procedural
mechanisms, institutions and practices that aim to manage, without
eliminating, the legal pluralism we see around us. Global Legal
Pluralism provides a broad synthesis across a variety of legal
doctrines and academic disciplines and offers a novel
conceptualization of law and globalization.
Over the past two decades Global Legal Pluralism has become one of
the leading analytical frameworks for understanding and
conceptualizing law in the 21st century. Wherever one looks, there
is conflict among multiple legal regimes. Some of these regimes are
state-based, some are built and maintained by non-state actors,
some fall within the purview of local authorities and
jurisdictional entities, and some involve international courts,
tribunals, and arbitral bodies, and regulatory organizations.
Global Legal Pluralism has provided, first and foremost, a set of
useful analytical tools for describing this conflict among legal
and quasi-legal systems. At the same time, some pluralists have
also ventured in a more normative direction, suggesting that legal
systems might sometimes purposely create legal procedures,
institutions, and practices that encourage interaction among
multiple communities. These scholars argue that pluralist
approaches can help foster more shared participation in the
practices of law, more dialogue across difference, and more respect
for diversity without requiring assimilation and uniformity.
Despite the veritable explosion of scholarly work on legal
pluralism, conflicts of law, soft law, global constitutionalism,
the relationships among relative authorities, transnational
migration, and the fragmentation and reinforcement of territorial
boundaries, no single work has sought to bring together these
various scholarly strands, place them into dialogue with each
other, or connect them with the foundational legal pluralism
research produced by historians, anthropologists, and political
theorists. Paul Schiff Berman, one of the world's leading theorists
of Global Legal Pluralism, has gathered over 40 diverse authors
from multiple countries and multiple scholarly disciplines to touch
on nearly every area of legal pluralism research, offering
defenses, critiques, and applications of legal pluralism to
21st-century legal analysis. Berman also provides introductions to
every part of the book, helping to frame the various approaches and
perspectives. The result is the first comprehensive review of
Global Legal Pluralism scholarship ever produced. This book will be
a must-have for scholars and students seeking to understand the
insights of legal pluralism to contemporary debates about law. At
the same time, this volume will help energize and engage the field
of Global Legal Pluralism and push this scholarly trajectory
forward into another two decades of innovation.
This book is designed to facilitate the introduction of
international, transnational, and comparative law issues into a
first year civil procedure course. The book is very accessible for
first year law students (and their professors). The chapters can be
used in any combination and in any order. The book can be assigned
or recommended as optional reading to supplement a domestic-only
course to advance the students' understanding of their own system.
This law school casebook starts from the premise that cyberlaw is
not simply a set of legal rules governing online interaction, but a
lens through which to re-examine general problems of policy,
jurisprudence, and culture. The book goes beyond simply plugging
Internet-related cases into a series of doctrinal categories,
instead emphasizing conceptual issues that extend across the
spectrum of cyberspace legal dilemmas. While the book addresses all
of the "traditional" subject matter areas of cyberlaw, it asks
readers to consider both how traditional legal doctrines can be
applied to cyberspace conduct, and how the special problems
encountered in that application can teach us something about those
traditional legal doctrines. The fifth edition has been updated,
shortened, and reconceptualized to make the book even more
effective as a teaching tool and to illuminate new debates at the
heart of this evolving field. The book groups the material into
units addressing the who, how, and what of
governance/regulation—fundamental questions that pertain to any
legal system, in cyberspace or elsewhere. The fifth edition also
includes updated treatment throughout, as well as a more
stream-lined approach that should make an already effective
casebook even more unified and teachable.
We live in a world of legal pluralism, where a single act or actor
is potentially regulated by multiple legal or quasi-legal regimes
imposed by state, substate, transnational, supranational, and
nonstate communities. Navigating these spheres of complex
overlapping legal authority is confusing, and we cannot expect
territorial borders to solve all these problems because human
activity and legal norms inevitably flow across such borders. At
the same time, those hoping to create one universal set of legal
rules are also likely to be disappointed by the sheer variety of
human communities and interests. Instead, we need an alternative
jurisprudence, one that seeks to create or preserve spaces for
productive interaction among multiple, overlapping legal systems by
developing procedural mechanisms, institutions, and practices that
aim to manage, without eliminating, the legal pluralism we see
around us. Such mechanisms, institutions, and practices can help
mediate conflicts, and we may find that the added norms,
viewpoints, and participants produce better decision making, better
adherence to those decisions by participants and non-participants
alike, and ultimately better real-world outcomes. Global Legal
Pluralism provides a broad synthesis across a variety of legal
doctrines and academic disciplines and offers a novel
conceptualization of law and globalization.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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