Aug 1, 2009 | Notes, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 42
The United States Supreme Court has long distinguished between horizontal and vertical price restrictions in assessing their legality under the Sherman Antitrust Act (the Act). Traditionally, courts use the “rule of reason” standard to determine whether a given price...
Aug 1, 2009 | Lead Articles, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 42
Symposium—Legal Outsiders in American Film When we think of “outsiders” in the context of law, those who often come to mind are members of disenfranchised minorities, such as the mentally challenged. But in many of Hollywood’s lawyer films, the paradigmatic and...
Aug 1, 2009 | Lead Articles, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 42
Symposium—Legal Outsiders in American Film The concept of justice is a dominant theme in traditional Western liberal culture. Indeed, the ideal of justice has taken on an almost mythic quality in our political and social culture. Interestingly, however, the...
Aug 1, 2009 | Lead Articles, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 42
Symposium—Legal Outsiders in American Film In this paper, the object of my attention is the HBO television production, Deadwood. In this highly acclaimed series, NYPD Blue’s creator, David Milch, both drew on and disrupted the genre of the American Western,...
Aug 1, 2009 | Lead Articles, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 42
Symposium—Legal Outsiders in American Film When I was first invited to participate in this symposium, Legal Outsiders in American Film, I initially thought of myself. I thought maybe I would be the outsider among the contributors. I have never taken a law and film...
Aug 1, 2009 | Lead Articles, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 42
Symposium—Legal Outsiders in American Film For the past few years I have been developing a general framework for thinking about the representation of law in American films. My thinking has been guided by three convictions: 1. The problem of law is central to the...