Originally applying solely to chefs, waiters, dishwashers and the like, New York City (NYC)
regulations governing cabaret employees were altered in 1943 to include musicians and …

Like the ingredients of many daring dishes, law and improvisation individually elicit
contrasting sensations. Their pairing can be at the same time compelling, jarring, titillating …

At present improvisation appears to be a tacit practice within law; regularly used but largely
unacknowledged amongst legal practitioners. This article advances the benefits of …

Justice as Improvisation: The Law of the Extempore theorises the relationship between
justice and improvisation through the case of the New York City cabaret laws. Discourses …

Given traditional understandings of law, one might be skeptical of a claim that improvisation
and justice are not mutually-exclusive concepts. Does not the significance of the rule of law …

In a 1999 essay, JM Balkin and Sanford Levinson called for law to be considered as a
performing art. Against or perhaps going further than Balkin and Levinson, this commentary …

This paper examines the role of performance in law and music as a structural means of their
self-programming construction. Music and law are considered as parallel social practices or …

In his celebrated essay “Nomos and Narrative,” legal scholar Robert Cover describes it as
“remarkable that in myth and history the origin of and justification for a court is rarely …

Abstract This is the Introduction/Editorial to a Special Issue of Critical Studies in
Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation, entitled" Just Improvisation: Enriching Law …

This article considers how legal trials participate in the production of culturally valourised
narratives of truth. Trial procedures legitimate certain narratives, and certain ways of …