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Zusatztext The book under review is a first. It addresses the relationship between the law of three jurisdictions (England, France and the USA) and art (including literature) and inaugurates a doctrinal and theoretical field which has been neglected in English Scholarship... Its main achievement lies in bringing together disparate areas of law dealing with art, and in suggesting that the concept of art should acquire juristic value and lead to doctrinal modifications in civil and criminal law... Offering a cogent argument for turning art into such a concept, which would cut across substantive classifications and procedural distinctions, is an important contribution to scholarship and policy. Informationen zum Autor Paul Kearns is a Senior Lecturer in Law in the University of Manchester, where he teaches Public International Law, Human Rights Law and, as a specialist yet popular topic, Law, Literature and Art. Klappentext Dr. Kearns has produced an innovative treatise on the legal regulation of art with both practical and jurisprudential implications. He studies English areas such as customs! libel and copywright! and draws on French! US and European Union Law. Zusammenfassung This book examines the treatment of art within the legal subjects of obscenity, copyright, libel, customs, public art funds, charitable trusts and movement of national treasures. The text includes comparisons with French, American and EU Law. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Legal Regulation of Art2. The Judicial Approach to Art3. Artistic as a Category and Criterion4. The Concept of Art in Defamation Law5. The Public Funding of Art6. The Concept of Art in the Anglo-American Law of Trusts7. The Conceptualisation of Art in its International Movement8. Art and the Customs Law of the European Union and America9. A Short Miscellany10. Some General Conclusions
