Legal Narratives

Legal Narratives: Outside Perspectives on US-American Law in Cultural Context
Eds. Gudrun M. Grabher and Anna M. Gamper
Introduction (Gudrun M. Grabher)
On the Road to Constitutionalism: "Publius" and a Continental European Searchlight (Anna M. Gamper)
The US Declaration of Independence: Narrative Horizons of a Text in Con-Text (Gudrun M. Grabher)

Coping with Disaster: Redress for Damage Caused by Natural Catastrophes on Both Sides of the Atlantic (Bernhard A. Koch/Dagmar Hinghofer-Szalkay)
Hate Crime Legislation Versus the Legacy of Lynch Law in the US: The Struggle Against A Biased Popular Justice (Karin Walpurga Köll)
Law and (Dis)Order: The Janus-Faced Myth of the Lawman in U.S. History and Popular Culture (Andreas Leisner)
The US Supreme Court and International Law A Liaison dangereuse? Reflections on Medellín v. Texas (Andreas Th. Müller)
The US-American Jury System - An Insight from a Civil Lawyer's Perspective (Verena Murschetz)
The Jury as a Means of Equity in John Grisham s A Time to Kill (Philipp Prantl)
Increased Competences through Development of the Law: The European Court of Justice and the U.S. Supreme Court (Günter H. Roth/Simone Wasserer)
Sentenced to Storification : A Trial on Legal Narratives (Claudia Schwarz)
Conclusion (Anna M. Gamper)
List of Authors