The Game is Rigged: Fictions of Lawyering
- Autor(en)
- Elisabeth Holzleithner
- Abstrakt
In literature as in popular culture, lawyers are rather ill-reputed. They are depicted as manipulative gamblers who would do anything to win in the legal game. Selective storytelling is one of their main weapons. Lawyers are masters of selective storytelling. Accordingly, the law gets to look like a “rigged game” where those who play according to the rules invite exploitation. Even or maybe especially fighting for a “good cause” will require “moral pluck” and “getting one’s hands dirty”. The paper explores these notions by looking at scenes from two major TV series: “The Wire” and “Damages”. It asks how such images on the small screen mould our perception of law and lawyers and how they may be used as a challenge for reflection in legal academia, particularly in law schools.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Rechtsphilosophie
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Forschungsverbund "Geschlecht und Handlungsmacht - Gender and Agency"
- Seiten
- 287-303
- Publikationsdatum
- 04-2015
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 505014 Rechtsgeschichte, 505016 Rechtstheorie, 603116 Politische Philosophie, 602006 Angewandte Literaturwissenschaft
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/the-game-is-rigged-fictions-of-lawyering(37d7b75f-b538-450f-ab19-d313156ff542).html