Call for Papers: Lex Non Scripta, Ars Non Scripta: Law, Justice, and Improvisation

Improvisation is an important art form and an artistic and cultural phenomenon – a manner of speaking, a way of being, and a realm of experience. For theorists, improvisation as a practice and as an idea raises questions not just about how law comes to describe, judge, and regulate improvisation, but the converse – how improvisation might describe, judge, and regulate the law. What does or should law tell us about improvisation? What does or should improvisation tell us about law?

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the legal status of improvised music, music sampling as improvisation, the law of improvisation, legal decision-making as improvisation, ruling law, improvising justice, improvisation and legal precedent, improvisation and legal/social change, informal norm development as improvisation, improvisation and art/law and improvisation, the normative space(s) for improvisation, justice and improvisation (or Justice as improvisation), the sounding of social justice and the law of the singular event.

Deadline: December 15, 2009

Please consult the Author Guidelines: http://www.criticalimprov.com/index.php/csieci/about/submissions#authorGuidelines


Critical Studies in Improvisation. ISSN: 1712-0624