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Research paper thumbnail of I Hereby Find You Guilty of Cheating: How Television Judges Give Personal Problems Legal Dimensions

Intersections of Law and Culture, 2012

In this chapter, I explore how legal consciousness may be influenced by television court shows. I... more In this chapter, I explore how legal consciousness may be influenced by television court shows. I try to bridge a gap between studies in the humanities and socio-legal studies as I account for some theories about why people go to court, and attempt to answer the question of whether television courts work as motivating factors for people to turn to address specific problems.

Research paper thumbnail of No End in Sight

Research paper thumbnail of Compulsive collectors

Journal of the History of Collections, 2020

Oscar-winning film director Andrzej Wajda (1929–2016) was an avid collector of all information re... more Oscar-winning film director Andrzej Wajda (1929–2016) was an avid collector of all information relating to himself and his film-making. In 1978 he made a documentary film about a fellow collector, Ludwig Zimmerer (1924–1987), who accumulated thousands of paintings and objects of Polish folk art. This article tells the stories of these two men and their collections. I suggest that an investigation into the lives and times of Wajda and Zimmerer can shed new light on the psychological processes that inform collecting. Rather than dismissing the compulsion to collect as a product of neurosis, as some previous interpretations have done, I argue here that we should read it as a productive and compensatory method for curing addictions.

Research paper thumbnail of Men of Paper: Polish Lustration Law and Its Faulty? Biographical Basis

Research paper thumbnail of Crime Stories: The Polish Secret Police File and the Conflation of the Legal and the Literary

Law and Humanities, 2011

A discussion on the relationship between the secret police file and literature in the People'... more A discussion on the relationship between the secret police file and literature in the People's Republic of Poland is presented. The article highlights the secret police file that spreads its message implicitly like literature it tells stories, but in secret. The papers reveals legal writing and literary genres, but a unique instance of fiction, biography, and novelistic additions having the authority of law.

Research paper thumbnail of Foucault in Poland: A Silent Archive

Research paper thumbnail of 7 Krakus_SEEJ Review.pdf

Research paper thumbnail of 6 Krakus_Baltic Worlds FashionReview.pdf

Research paper thumbnail of Law & Literature Men of Paper: Polish Lustration Law and Its Faulty? Biographical Basis

Research paper thumbnail of The Abuses and Uses of Film Censorship: An Interview with Andrzej Wajda

Research paper thumbnail of I Hereby Find You Guilty of Cheating: How Television Judges Give Personal Problems Legal Dimensions

Research paper thumbnail of Crime Stories: The Polish Secret Police File and the Conflation of the Legal and the Literary

Research paper thumbnail of Revealing the Past: The Formerly Secret Police Files in Poland and Andrzej Wajda’s Counter-Archive

Research paper thumbnail of I Hereby Find You Guilty of Cheating: How Television Judges Give Personal Problems Legal Dimensions

Intersections of Law and Culture, 2012

In this chapter, I explore how legal consciousness may be influenced by television court shows. I... more In this chapter, I explore how legal consciousness may be influenced by television court shows. I try to bridge a gap between studies in the humanities and socio-legal studies as I account for some theories about why people go to court, and attempt to answer the question of whether television courts work as motivating factors for people to turn to address specific problems.

Research paper thumbnail of No End in Sight

Research paper thumbnail of Compulsive collectors

Journal of the History of Collections, 2020

Oscar-winning film director Andrzej Wajda (1929–2016) was an avid collector of all information re... more Oscar-winning film director Andrzej Wajda (1929–2016) was an avid collector of all information relating to himself and his film-making. In 1978 he made a documentary film about a fellow collector, Ludwig Zimmerer (1924–1987), who accumulated thousands of paintings and objects of Polish folk art. This article tells the stories of these two men and their collections. I suggest that an investigation into the lives and times of Wajda and Zimmerer can shed new light on the psychological processes that inform collecting. Rather than dismissing the compulsion to collect as a product of neurosis, as some previous interpretations have done, I argue here that we should read it as a productive and compensatory method for curing addictions.

Research paper thumbnail of Men of Paper: Polish Lustration Law and Its Faulty? Biographical Basis

Research paper thumbnail of Crime Stories: The Polish Secret Police File and the Conflation of the Legal and the Literary

Law and Humanities, 2011

A discussion on the relationship between the secret police file and literature in the People'... more A discussion on the relationship between the secret police file and literature in the People's Republic of Poland is presented. The article highlights the secret police file that spreads its message implicitly like literature it tells stories, but in secret. The papers reveals legal writing and literary genres, but a unique instance of fiction, biography, and novelistic additions having the authority of law.

Research paper thumbnail of Foucault in Poland: A Silent Archive

Research paper thumbnail of 7 Krakus_SEEJ Review.pdf

Research paper thumbnail of 6 Krakus_Baltic Worlds FashionReview.pdf

Research paper thumbnail of Law & Literature Men of Paper: Polish Lustration Law and Its Faulty? Biographical Basis

Research paper thumbnail of The Abuses and Uses of Film Censorship: An Interview with Andrzej Wajda

Research paper thumbnail of I Hereby Find You Guilty of Cheating: How Television Judges Give Personal Problems Legal Dimensions

Research paper thumbnail of Crime Stories: The Polish Secret Police File and the Conflation of the Legal and the Literary

Research paper thumbnail of Revealing the Past: The Formerly Secret Police Files in Poland and Andrzej Wajda’s Counter-Archive

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