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    The book aims to introduce the Homeric oeuvre into the law and literature canon. It argues for a reading of Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey as primordial narratives on the significance of the rule of law. The book delineates moments of correspondence between the transition from myth to tragedy and the gradual transition from a social existence lacking formal law to an institutionalized legal system as practiced in the polis. It suggests the Homeric epics are a significant milestone in the way …Read more
  • Mishpat Ha-Adam
    Ha-Kibuts Ha-Me Uhad Mekhon Mofet, Mehkar U-Fituh Tokhniyot Be-Hakhsharat Ovde Hora Ah - Mishrad Ha-Hinukh. 1996.
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    Representations of Law and the Nonfiction Novel: Capote’s In Cold Blood Revisited (review)
    International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 25 (3): 355-368. 2012.
    The article describes the way in which law-related events are represented in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. Based on a narrative analysis, the paper will posit that In Cold Blood played a particular role in originating and shaping an innovative mode of representing law-related events, a mode that was widely employed since, in various artistic mediums and in popular culture. As the paper further elaborates, Capote’s work paved new ways for challenging the conventional boundaries between “reality”…Read more
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    Social Protest and the Absence of Legalistic Discourse: In the Quest for New Language of Dissent
    with Gad Barzilai
    International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 27 (4): 735-756. 2014.
    Legalistic discourse, lawyers and lawyering had minor representation during the 2011 summer protest events in Israel. In this paper we explore and analyze this phenomena by employing content analysis on various primary and secondary sources, among them structured personal interviews with leaders and major activists involved in the protest, flyers, video recordings made by demonstrators and songs written by them. Our findings show that participants cumulatively produced a pyramid-like structure o…Read more
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    Law Versus Justice?
    In Jonathan Westphal (ed.), Justice, Hackett. pp. 11--35. 1996.
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    Contesting Religious Authoriality: The Immanuel “Beis-Yaakov” School Segregation Case (review)
    with Lotem Perry-Hazan
    International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 26 (1): 211-225. 2013.
    This paper will focus on two textual articulations that emerged in the Immanuel “Beis-Yaakov” school segregation case. The first is a declaration of the Admor from Slonim that was published when the ultra-Orthodox fathers who refused to send their daughters to an integrated school were imprisoned. The second is a letter to the Supreme Court that was written by an Ashkenazi mother whose daughter attended the “Beis Yaakov” school. A semiotic reading of the articulations reveals several opposing ch…Read more