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A unique application of philosophical hermeneutics, literary theory and narratology to the practice of judgingCombining her expertise in legal theory and her judicial practice in criminal law in a Court of Appeal, Jeanne Gaakeer explores the intertwinement of legal theory and practice to develop a humanities-inspired methodology for both the academic interdisciplinary study of law and literature and for legal practice.This volume addresses judgment and interpretation as a central concern within the field of law, literature and humanities. It is not only a study of law as praxis that combines academic legal theory with judicial practice, but proposes both as central to humanistic jurisprudence and as a training in the conduct of public life. Drawing extensively on philosophical and legal scholarship and through analysis of literary works, Gaakeer proposes a perspective on law as part of the humanities that will inspire legal professionals, scholars and advanced students of law alike.Key FeaturesFocuses on the importance of judging for the humanities Combines legal theory and legal practice to show the importance of the bond of theory and practice in law and legal theory Incorporates the findings of philosophical hermeneutics and narratology for our continued thought on the position of law and literature, and law and the humanities as interdisciplinary movementsCreates philosophical–hermeneutical building blocks for a methodology for the humanistic study of law as praxisReflects on interdisciplinarity in legal studies against a backdrop of the tension between the natural sciences and the humanitiesLiterary case studies include: Gustave Flaubert's Bouvard and PécuchetRobert Musil's The Man without QualitiesDutch poet Gerrit Achterberg's asylum poemsPat Barker's RegenerationJohn Coetzee's DisgraceIan McEwan's The Children ActMichel Houellebecq's AtomisedJuli Zeh's The Method

In this article I aim to rise to the bait thrown my way by Greta Olson where she posits ( From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect, p.121) that law-and-affect scholarship is anti-narrative, and provocatively imagines that I would shake my head and chuckle, asking what one is to do with the questions asked by scholarship on emotion and affect in actual legal practice. As one spending most of her time in judicial practice I am not only firmly convinced of the importance of narrative in law, what is more, I often have to steep myself in the legal effects of emotion and affect and ask what consequences they should have for the people involved. I will therefore consider the trial as a performance, i.e., a show trial in the positive sense that as a performance shows and tells that it has read well what is brought before the court.

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Software systems that claim to think for themselves may prove to be Frankenstein's nightmare come true. When Amazon used algorithms to read digital letters of job applicants, it turned out that mentioning women sports in the category of one's favourite leisure activities was detrimental to getting the job, i.e., the algorithm favoured male applicants. What if AI becomes able to and will in fact take over cars, elevators and other electronic devices with devastating results for their human owners or operators? In this article, I aim to address the differences between, and the possible clashes of the human and the AI minds (and their souls and hearts) by means of some examples, including a.o., drones, ADS (automatic driving systems) and our recent Artificial Friend, Kazuo Ishiguro's fictional robot Klara, and I do so by focussing on the narratives involved, on the view that new technologies need a legal hermeneut. This article is inspired, firstly, by the novelist Samuel Butler and the today not so fictional question that he raised, i.e., whether "because mechanical life is a very different thing from ours, therefore it is not life at all?" (Samuel Butler, Erewhon [1872]. Harmondsworth UK: Penguin, 1954, 175), because Butler adds that if it is considered life it could have a will of its own as well and that may lead to dire consequences also from a point of view of law; secondly, because the topic of AI also invites us to consider the interdisciplinary question why new technologies need the humanities. As the philosopher Edmund Husserl claimed, a determination of the world by the positive sciences as took place in the second half of the nineteenth century occasioned "an indifferent turning-away from the questions which are decisive for a genuine humanity. Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people" (Edmund Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy [1954], trans. David Carr. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1970, 6).

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This contribution provides, in a condensed form, the argument on the topic of interdisciplinarity within Law and the Humanities of my recent book Judging from Experience. Law, Praxis, Humanities. It also engages with recent proposals for the future, both in Law and Humanities and as far as the humanities in themselves are concerned. Its main point is that any "Law and" field that remains theoretical and does not seek to inform legal practice will suffer from a lack of impact of the kind university administrators demand from academic researchers. If interdisciplinary fields are to thrive, they need to provide nourishment to the legal professional by combining the findings of academic theory (including but not limited to legal doctrine) with the specifics of doing law.

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This article addresses some of the risks involved in the uses of information technologies such as profiling and data mining by means of the German jurist-philosopher Juli Zeh's dystopic novel Leere Herzen.

AbstractIn literary-legal discussions of the subject of "voice" in law the focus is often on the voices of defendants and victims, on the view that for a variety of reasons their voices are the ones most often diminished or even totally "unheard." On the view that voice and speech are connected and that one's voice is therefore important for one's identity, I aim to look in this paper at the judge's voice in law and literature. While the metaphor "the voice of the law" is traditionally taken to refer to judicial impartiality and/or a formalistic view of law as distant from the actions or disputes it is supposed to govern, I want to take the words literally and, on the view that getting a voice of one's own as a judge requires more than institutional authority and power, ask questions including, but not limited to: What if the voice of the judge is oppressed or even silenced, e.g. by undue influence of a third party? What if the judge is unable to find the right voice when she experiences cognitive dissonances between her institutional voice and her conscience? What space is the judge allowed in the public sphere to speak her voice on cases pending or on societal developments? What space is the judge allowed to show her emotions inside the courtroom? I hope to illustrate my point with emblemata for further discussion in the form of European Human Rights Court decisions and literary works including Lowell B. Komie's short story "Ash," Ernst Wiechert's novella "The judge," and Kiran Desai's novel

Het recht staat niet op zichzelf. Integendeel, het treedt voortdurend in dialoog met alle deelgebieden van de maatschappij waarin het zich bevindt. Dit is essentieel, want alleen zo kan het blijvend gedragen worden en zich in de maatschappelijk democratisch gewenste richting ontwikkelen met aandacht voor alle diverse lagen van de maatschappij. Recht en Literatuur en Recht en Cultuur als disciplines bestuderen precies de kruisverbanden tussen het recht en de maatschappelijke deelgebieden 'literatuur', 'cultuur' of, in het Engels, 'humanities'. Het recht dient als het ware geletterd te zijn in de humanistische betekenis van het woord, vandaar de titel van dit boek. Bovenstaande disciplines roepen hoofdzakelijk verbanden met de Angelsaksische rechtstraditie op, maar bestaan ook al geruime tijd in de Nederlandstalige rechtswereld. Diverse initiatieven aan de Vlaamse en Nederlandse rechtsfaculteiten zijn daarvan getuige. Dit boek vormt de neerslag van een van deze initiatieven, met name de Global Law lezingenreeks Law and Literature die aangeboden werd aan de Leuvense rechtsfaculteit in 2018. De Nederlandstalige Recht-en-Literatuurbeweging is dan ook in volle ontwikkeling. Dit boek draagt daaraan bij, evenals aan de geletterdheid van ons recht