Publications

Authors:

Bennett, Thomas D. C.; Mickiewicz, Emilia; Nicolini, Matteo; Mullender, Richard

Title:

Legal Imagination in Troubled Times. An Introduction

Year:

2020

Type of item:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Tipologia ANVUR:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Book Title:

Law and Imagination in Troubled Times. A Legal and Literary Discourse

Publisher:

Routledge

ISBN:

978-0-367-34411-5

Page numbers:

1-12

Keyword:

Transatlantic Constitution; Troubled Times; Legal Imagination; Cultural Competence; Sectionalities

Short description of contents:

This collection focuses on how troubled times impact upon the law, the body politic, and the complex interrelationship among them. It centres on how they engage in a dialogue with the imagination and literature, thus triggering an emergent (but thus far underdeveloped) field concerning the ‘legal imagination’. Legal change necessitates a close examination of the historical, cultural, social, and economic variables that promote and affect such change. This requires us to attend to the variety of non-legal variables that percolate throughout the legal system. The collection probes ‘the transatlantic constitution’ and focuses attention on imagination in a common law context that seems to foster imagination as a cultural capability. The book is divided into four parts. The first part begins with a set of insights into the historical development of legal education in England and concludes with a reflection on the historical transition of England from an absolute monarchy to a republic. The second part of the volume examines the role that imagination plays in the functioning of the courts. The third part focuses on patterns of thought in legal scholarship and detects how legal imagination contributes to the process of producing new legal categories and terminology. The fourth part focuses on patterns of thought in legal scholarship and looks to the impact of the imagination on legal thinking in the future.

Product ID:

114877

Handle IRIS:

11562/1019342

Last Modified:

November 15, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Bennett, Thomas D. C.; Mickiewicz, Emilia; Nicolini, Matteo; Mullender, Richard, Legal Imagination in Troubled Times. An Introduction Law and Imagination in Troubled Times. A Legal and Literary Discourse , Routledge , 2020 , pp. 1-12

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