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...
Aug 1, 2009 | Lead Articles, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 42
Symposium—Legal Outsiders in American Film This article examines the conflicting film narratives about the internment produced between 1942 and 2007. It argues that while later films, especially documentaries, counter early government film narratives justifying the...
Apr 1, 2009 | Lead Articles, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 42
Symposium—Limited Liability Companies at 20 One would expect the answer to the question posed in the title to depend to a significant degree on the extent to which legislatures have developed a unique theory of limited liability companies (LLCs) or have simply...
Apr 1, 2009 | Lead Articles, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 42
Symposium—Limited Liability Companies at 20 Today the goal of many physicists, whether working with what are some of the largest machines ever built such as the newly christened Large Hadron Collider or with the rather more simple chalk and blackboard, is to develop a...