Guilty Pleasures

📖 The Scoop

Machine generated contents note: -- Table of Contents -- Preface by Bob Mankoff -- Introduction -- A. On, About, In. Law's Intersection with Humor -- B. The Power of New Yorker Cartoons -- C. Humor Scholarship -- 1. Humor Inventories -- 2. Major Theories of Humor -- a. Superiority Theory -- b. Release Theory -- c. Incongruity Theory -- Chapter 1 "On": Law's Effect on Humor -- A. An Unwitting Passage into the Comedy Business: How Courts Become Humor Critics When Indirectly Regulating Humor -- 1. Intellectual Property Law: Parody as a Favored Child in Trademark Law -- 2. Tort -- a. Defamation -- b. Other Torts -- 3. Contract -- 4. Workplace Humor and Harassment Cases -- 5. Endnote on Indirect Regulation -- B. The Frontal Attack: Punishing the Jokester, Muzzling the Comedian, and Regulating the Punster -- 1. Punishing the Jokester -- 2. Muzzling the Stand-up Comedian -- a. Fines, Punishment, and Supreme Court Opinions: Comedians as Outlaws Turned Heroes -- b. Shaming by Self-Regulation: Beating Up on Each Other -- C. The Unusual Case of Hate Speech -- D. Humor's Push Back on Law: Censorship Humor -- Chapter 2 "About": Humor about Law -- A. Lawyers -- 1. Crafty and Cunning: Disloyal Lawyers as Allies of the Devil -- 2. Money-Grubbing Vultures -- 3. Proliferating Lawyers -- 4. The Future of Lawyer Jokes -- B. Judges -- C. Juries -- 1. Stupid Jurors -- 2. Lazy Jurors -- 3. Misbehaving Jurors -- 4. Common Sense Jurors -- D. Gender and Race Meet Humor and the Law -- 1. Gender -- a. Female Lawyers -- b. Female Judges -- c. Female Jurors -- 2. Race -- E. The Legal System and Legal Texts -- 1. The Legal System -- 2. Legal Texts -- F. Can Satire Inspire Change? -- Chapter 3 "In": Humor in Law -- A. Funny Lawyers -- 1. Advice Giving, Media Spinning, and Social Justice Advocacy -- 2. Negotiation and Mediation -- 3. Adversary Litigation -- B. Funny Judges -- 1. In-Court and Extrajudicial Humor -- 2. Humor in Opinions -- C. Funny Legal Instruments -- 1. Contracts -- 2. Wills -- D. Funny Laws -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Genre: Humor / Topic / Politics (fancy, right?)