For those interested in the imagery of vampires and law, here are some cites.
Sutherland, Sharon, Piercing the Corporate Veil - With a Stake? Vampire Imagery in American Caselaw (2003).
This paper examines the use of metaphoric representations of vampires in judicial writing. Although relatively unexplored in the literature of vampire studies, in both of these cases vampire imagery reflects the cultural milieu of the author and acts as a barometer to popular attitudes.
Sutherland, Sharon and Sarah Swan, If a Vampire Bites a Lawyer, is it Cannibalism? The Demonization of Lawyers in 'Angel' (2005).
Since the 1970s, the portrayal of lawyers in popular culture has been increasingly negative, to the point where lawyers are often figuratively and literally demonized. This paper explores the popular culture portrayal of lawyers as evil beings, both in their role as representatives of evil doers and as evil doers themselves, through a study of the unique interrelationship between lawyers and vampires in the television program "Angel". In particular, the paper explores the roles played by specific lawyers and by the law firm, Wolfram & Hart, in the Angelverse and the underlying popular images of legal practice.
Williams, Robert A., Jr., VampiresAnonymous and Critical Race Practice, 95 Michigan Law Review 741 (1997).
This article begins with a discussion of storytelling, setting the context for what follows: the author's own story of an affirmative-action-fueled journey through law school; law school teaching then law school publishing – to his ultimate resignation from what he calls the Vampire Law Professor existence (hence Vampires Anonymous). Most tenured law professors, he notes, are Storyhaters, preferring instead 100-page law journal articles with 400 footnotes. Indian people, on the other hand, love their story-tellers and their stories. Indian people also raise their children to think independently and act for others. The act-for-others theme makes its second appearance toward the end of the article, after Professor Williams colorfully describes how he was, temporarily, sucked into the blood-sucking, soul-draining, tenure-chasing, article-writing hell of his early professorial days. It was only after he joined Vampires Anonymous that Williams was able to “stop writing law review articles for a while and serve the needs of others in [his] community.” He accomplished this by involving both himself and his law students in Critical Race Practice. Williams concludes that as he and his students practice it, Critical Race Practice is about “learning to listen to other people’s stories and then finding ways to make these stories matter in the legal system.”
Remember that Jonathan Harker, one of the main characters of Bram Stoker's Dracula is, after all, a lawyer (a solicitor).
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