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Foreword to the English edition —VII
Preface —IX
Chapter 1
Law, comedy, justice — 1
Law and comedy: an unnatural combination or an unavoidable pair? — 1
The third element: the phantom of justice —7
The upside-down world: laughter as a sanction of the injustice of
law—10
Incongruity: who is "good”? —16
Another incongruity: the "just” law in the books and the "unjust” law in
action —21
Another incongruity: the ridiculousness of serious law — 24
Another incongruity. The ridiculousness of law without communication.
Rabelais — 28
Disappointment—30
Relief: the blessed wandering nature of law—35
Chapter 2
How and why we laugh at law —40
Law and the elusive nature of humor—40
Law and comedy —42
Law and the grotesque (Georges Brassens, Victor Hugo) —44
Law and slapstick (Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy) —47
The whims of law, or the trial as sport (Conan Doyle and
Aristophanes) —49
Chapter 3
Law vs. Comedy—64
Leopardi: law and the ambivalent force of laughter—64
Leopardi’s thought and the problem of eutrapelia —71
Nietzsche, Don Quixote and eutrapelia —72
The return of law to the becoming and the revenge of the phantom of
justice —79
The force of laughter versus the force of law: satire —85
Law, fear, and laughter: satire and dictatorships —89
Satire and the liberal position of US case law—92
The middle way: satire and the European legal systems —94
The maieutic capacity of laughter and its limits: laughing is not always
“just” —96
Chapter 4
in the Vortex of Evil —100
Comedy and subversion —100
Sergej Dovlatov: the rebellious laugh —100
Rob Marshall’s Chicago: when what is right is relative—106
Chapter 5
The “ridiculous claims” of law—118
The claim to define subjectivity—118
The claim to shape society—124
The claim to define ethics / morality—131
Institutions and laughter: the emperor’s new clothes —135
Justice is not of this world (jurisdiction is ...) —139
Auto da fe: a law without a world / a world without a law—146
Chapter 6
Who am I and where do I live? Persona, law and laughter—150
Italian by law: Toto and Fernandel —150
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, or an innocent gaze on the law—162
A final paragraph in the guise of a conclusion —175
Appendixes by Giuseppe Rossi
Appendix 1
The Good Lawyer and Bardell v. Pickwick—181
Appendix 2
The Law and the Masochist’s Contract: Notes on Gilles Deleuze’s Coldness and
Cruelty—196
Bibliography—211
Index—219

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Despite their inherent seriousness, the law and those who practice it, be it lawyers, judges, politicians, or bureaucrats, are amongst the most popular objects of comedy and humour. Sometimes even the mention of the law, or the mere use of legal vocabulary, can trigger laughter. This is deeply counterintuitive, but true across cultures and historical eras: while the law is there to prevent and remedy injustice, it often ends up becoming the butt of comedy. But laughter and comedy, too, are also infused with seriousness: as universal social phenomena, they are extremely complex objects of study. This book maps out the many intersections of the law and laughter, from classical Greece to the present day. Taking on well-known classical and modern works of literature and visual culture, from Aristophanes to Laurel and Hardy and from Nietzsche to Toto and Fernandel, laughter and comedy bring law back to the complexity of human soul and the unpredictability of life.