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Lex Populi: The Jurisprudence of Popular Culture (The Cultural Lives of Law)

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I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in legal matters or popular culture. Professor MacNeil's collection moves us forward in understanding the caresses of justice with our everyday social lives. This book provides insightful, novel and highly intellectual analyses of recent events and popular cultural artefacts. It is tantalising and exquisite research which will invigorate and stimulate readers.

This book is a revolution in jurisprudence, never before has the law been subject to such a hugely entertaining analysis by such an avant garde scholar as William MacNeil. Regardless of your level of theoretical, legal or cultural understanding this book will engage you, and herein lies the single most important contribution that this text makes - it bridges the huge divide between the law and popular culture whilst at the same time neither talking down nor up to any one audience. Whether your a lawyer with a creative or theoretical bent, a pop culture vulture or a black letter legal scholar this book will expand your thinking and be very entertaining in the process. A one of a kind, a forerunner, the new grundnorm for post-postmodern legal and cultural thinking. Highly recommended.