Jetzt, da Christine Corcos vom Law & Humanities Blog auf ein Buch aufmerksam macht, das sie selbst herausgegeben hat, will ich nicht zögern, auch diesen Hinweis zu übernehmen:
Law and Magic: A Collection of Essays. Ed. by Christine A. Corcos. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2010. Verlagsanzeige: “The nearly two dozen studies in this collection explore the very rich ways in which the rule of law and the practice of magic enrich and inform each other. The authors bring both a U.S. and a comparative law perspective while examining areas such as law and religion, criminal law, intellectual property law, the law of evidence, and animal rights. Topics include alchemy in fifteenth-century England, a discussion of how a courtroom is like a magic show, stage hypnotism and the law, Scottish witchcraft trials in the eighteenth century, the question of whether stage magicians can look to intellectual property to protect their rights, tarot card readings and the First Amendment, and an analysis of whether a magician can be qualified as an expert witness under the Federal Rules of Evidence”. (Inhalt & Einleitung als PDF.)
Beim Verlag findet man auch noch eine Ankündigung: The Last Witchcraft Trial by Christine A. Corcos. Forthcoming 2010. Aus der Verlagsanzeige: “In the 1930s and 1940s Scottish-born Helen Duncan claimed to be a physical medium bringing comfort to the bereaved. The wartime British Government considered her at best a fraud preying on the grief of thousands of citizens, at worst a spy for Germany. In 1944, under a 1735 statute prohibiting the practice of witchcraft, the British government brought Duncan and three of her associates to trial where they were prosecuted and convicted”.
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