A Series of Unfortunate Events or the Common Law
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21740561 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Giddens (0000-0002-1525-4615, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-48 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1535-685X • E-ISSN: 1541-2601 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1535685x.2020.1729596 |
| OpenAlex | W3009004385 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events mirrors the scholarly praxis of the common law, encoding a doctrine of virtue from diligent study. This doctrine promotes critical literacy as a means of achieving justice, linking with the textual adjudication of state power found in the archive and practice of the common law. The doctrine also requires at the same time that this literacy be inhabited by its readers. In its translation to a Netflix series, this doctrine is misinterpreted: the TV series does not inculcate the cinematic or televisual literacy required by its form, but presents an appearance of bookish study and scholarly endeavour in lieu of its actual undertaking. Within a broader context of the marketisation of higher education—including legal education—in which space for the undertaking of scholarly endeavour is increasingly compressed, the misinterpretation of such a valuable doctrine should not pass without concern
Adjudication · Common law · Doctrine · Economic Justice · Legal doctrine · Literacy · Political science · Praxis · Sociology · Virtue · Comparative and International Law Studies · History · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Legal Education and Practice Innovations
Justice at the Gate? Negotiating Tensions Between Critical Literacy and “Culture of Power” Pedagogies
Is Law a Humanity (Or Is It More Like Engineering)
The bureaucratic distortion of academic work
Why Does the State Keep Coming Back? Neoliberalism, the State and the Archeon
Literacy and the Languages of the Early Common Law
From memory to written record
Humanism, history and the common law
The UK Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) as an illustration of Baudrillard's hyperreality
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |