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To Sue and Make Noise' - Legal theatricality and civic didacticism in Boston Legal

The legal drama episode from which this dialogue is taken depicts an impossible case: a Sudanese immigrant, who lost most of his family to the violence in Darfur, wants to sue the U.S. government for failing to intervene in the face of obvious genocide. The case is unwinnable. Lori Colson’s construction of a legal basis for the case is more than shaky. But neither the client nor his lawyers expect to win the case. Their proclaimed objective – to “make noise” – pinpoints a significant cultural potential of litigation, of its “real” practice in the courtroom and, even more importantly, in its various forms of mass-medialization and fictionalization: to raise public awareness about instances of injustice, to educate the public and encourage civic debate.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:28582
Date08 April 2015
CreatorsKanzler, Katja
ContributorsTechnische Universität Dresden
PublisherUniversitätsverlag Winter
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typedoc-type:bookPart, info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart, doc-type:Text
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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