Fables of the Law: Fairy Tales in a Legal Context. A New Volume Edited By Daniela Carpi and Marett Leiboff Available From DeGryuter

New from DeGryuter:

Fables of the Law: Fairy Tales in a Legal Context (Daniela Carpi and Marett Leiboff, 2016) (Law & Literature; 13).


This very interesting volume includes essays by Luis Gomez Romero, The Wondrous (Baroque) Gender Revolution, or the Rise and Fall of the Empire of Fairies, Cristina Costantini, The Haunting Memory of Law: Mystic Fables, Uncanny Presences and Normative Spectrality, Doris Pichler, Playing with Conventions and Traditions: The Modern Legal Fairy Tale, Anna Enrichtta Soccio, Divorce and the Failure of Law in Dickens's "Hard Times,"  Daniela Carpi, Fables of the Holocaust: Hansel and Gretel, and Giovanna Ligugnana, An Invented Executive: The Ministry of Magic in "Harry Potter." 

So many fascinating pieces: I've mentioned only a few.  Complete table of contents here.

Updated Fairy Tales In Popular Culture

The Guardian's Film Blog discusses fairy tale films, their popularity, and their meaning here. Compare with this 2011 discussion of fairy tale tv on US networks from Reuters.

Examining "The Princess and the Pea"

Linda Ross Meyer, Quinnipiac University School of Law, has published Suffering and Judging in The Princess and the Pea, at 30 Quinnipiac Law Review 489 (2012).

This brief essay explores Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Princess and the Pea" for how it illuminates issues of suffering, compassion, victimization, political leadership, and mercy.

Download the article from SSRN at the link. 

"There Oughta Be a Law!" A Scholar Re-Examines Fairy Tale History

The Chronicle of Higher Education's Jennifer Howard writes about Ruth B. Bottigheimer, whose works on the origins of fairy tales have other scholars up in arms.