Judge on the Screen - (The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Law, Culture, and the Humanities) by Vincenzo Tomeo (Hardcover)

About the Book

Written twenty years before other scholars started to recognize the importance of popular culture for our understanding of law, The Judge on the Screen predates by thirty years the attention to empirical studies which did not appear from other scholars until well into the twenty-first century. A classic text translated with supporting materials.

Book Synopsis

Written twenty years before other scholars started to recognize the importance of popular culture for our understanding of law, The Judge on the Screen predates by thirty years the attention to empirical studies which did not appear from other scholars until well into the twenty-first century. A classic text translated with supporting materials.

Review Quotes

The Judge on the Screen is a pioneering work by one of the leading post-war Italian sociologists of law, a model of theoretically inspired empirical research on law and popular culture.

About the Author

Peter Robson was solicitor, judge in Her Majesty's courts and tribunal service (1992-2022) and professor of social welfare law at the University of Strathclyde (1992-2019).