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IDEALIZED IMAGES OF SCIENCE IN LAW: THE EXPERT WITNESS IN TRIAL MOVIES
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St. John's Law Review
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July 1, 2008
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I. APOLOGIA: LAW AND FILM
It is too early to say whether the law-and-cinema discourse will. . . succeed in creating modes of analysis that are capable of withstanding conceptual, empirical, and ethical critique. Ornamenting our jurisprudential analysis with a reference to such or such a film or attaching an analysis of a film to a legal or moral statement of one type or another are liable to ultimately be but a transient fashion. Yet the conclusion that the discourse of law and cinema is doomed to be just á fad is equally hasty.1
Scholarly reflection on the portrayal of lawyers and legal processes in film is a growing practice. As to its status as a subdiscipline of law, it may be ...
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