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It All Started with Columbo: Teaching Law with Popular Culture
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Corcos, Christine Alice |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | Law and humanities scholarship—and more specifically, law and popular culture scholarship1—has probably shaped my professional identity as much as my scholarship in any other area. The first “doctrinal” article I published in a law review was a “law and popular culture” piece called Columbo Goes to Law School: Or, Some Thoughts on the Uses of Television in the Teaching of Law.2 I loved Peter Falk’s portrayal of the scruffy Lieutenant and the inverted mysteries that William Levinson and Richard Link gave his character to solve. I particularly appreciated the image of justice that the ninety-minute films delivered so reliably. I also thought that the easy-to-follow formula allowed professors and students to focus on the issues that various episodes presented. The accessibility and memorable reflection of law that our popular culture provides seemed to me to make it a useful vehicle for supplementing a course casebook.3 I didn’t yet think that one could create an entire course around law and popular culture. Lawrence M. Friedman offered a definition of law and popular culture as early as 1989: |
| Starting Page | 122 |
| Ending Page | 122 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 68 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://jle.aals.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1607&context=home |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1426&context=faculty_scholarship |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
