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Title Law and magic : a collection of essays / edited by Christine A. Corcos
Published Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, [2010]
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Description xiii, 429 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents Law and magic : an introduction out of a hat / Loren A. Smith -- It's in the cards : the law of Tarot (and other fortunes told) / Julie D. Cromer -- Rogues, vagabonds, and lunatics: how the right to listen cleared the future for fortunetellers / Craig Freeman and Stephen Banning -- Non-mainstream religions and the law / Pamela Edwards -- The effects of freedom of information laws on corruption and the quality of decision-making under U.S., E.U., and German freedom of information laws / Indra Spiecker genannt Döhmann -- "Ghostwriters" : spiritualists, copyright infringement, and rights of publicity / Christine A. Corcos -- Now you own it, now you don't: copyright and related rights in magic productions and performances / F. Jay Dougherty -- Secrets revealed : protecting magicians' intellectual property without law / Jacob Loshin -- Selling secrets : legal problems of the magic market / Florian Faust -- The magic of civil procedure / Frederick A. Brodie -- The case of the magician's assistant : McAfoos v. Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd / Robert M. Jarvis -- Magical realism / Jessie Allen -- The legal regulation and licensing of alchemy in late medieval England / Wendy J. Turner -- On death and magic: law, necromancy, and the great beyond / Eric J. Gouvin -- The type of possession is nine-tenths of the law: criminal responsibility for acts performed under the influence of hypnosis or bewitchment / Susan D. Rozelle -- "When you awake you will feel no remorse": stage hypnotism and the law / Garrett Epps -- Unsympathetic magic: charitable status and magical practice in the United Kingdom / Peter W. Edge -- Principled conjuring tails : a twenty-first century lawyer's view of the history of animals in magic / Rebekah Heiser Hanley -- Taking the rabbit out of the hat: let the animals disappear from magic acts / Lisa Johnson -- Hocus ipsa loquitur : the affinity between law and magic / Noel Marcovecchio -- Conjuring and the courtroom : all I needed to know about trying cases I learned by doing magic shows / Kenneth M. Trombly -- Smoke and mirrors : the escamoteur as an expert witness / Sydney Beckman -- Perspectives, mainly Scottish, on evidence and procedure in witchcraft trials / Richard Ramsey -- "Low connections" : some wisdom for the academic lawyer in a history of English magic / Marianne Wesson
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Law and magic.
Author Corcos, Christine, 1953-
LC no. 2009006919
ISBN 9781594603556 alkaline paper
1594603553 alkaline paper