12 January 2010

Magic

Magic and the Law: A Collection of Essays (Carolina Academic Press) edited by Christine Corcos is now available.

Corcos is an academic and author of an engaging blog.

The collection includes -
It's in the Cards: The Law of Tarot (and Other Fortunes Told) - Julie Cromer

Unsympathetic Magic: Charitable Status and Magical Practice in the United Kingdom - Peter Edge

Rogues, Vagabonds, and Lunatics: How the Right to Listen Cleared the Future for Fortunetellers - Craig Freeman & Stephen Banning

Non-Mainstream Religions and the Law - Pamela Edwards

"Ghostwriters": Spiritualists, Copyright Infringement & Rights of Publicity - Christine Corcos

"When You Awake You Will Feel No Remorse": Stage Hypnotism and the Law - Garrett Epps

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

Principled Conjuring Tails: A Twenty-First Century Lawyer's View of the History of Animals in Magic - Rebekah Heiser Hanley

The Magic of Civil Procedure - Frederick Brodie

The Case of the Magician's Assistant: McAfoos v. Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd - Robert Jarvis

Legal Regulation and Licensing of Alchemy in Late Medieval England - Wendy Turner

On Death and Magic: Law, Necromancy, and the Great Beyond - Eric Gouvin

The Type of Possession Is Nine-Tenths of the Law: Criminal Responsibility for Acts Performed under the Influence of Hypnosis or Bewitchment - Susan Rozelle

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 Trombly

Smoke & 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