{"id":1646,"date":"2013-01-17T20:51:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T04:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2013-01-17T20:51:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T04:51:09","slug":"review-the-law-of-superheroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Law Of Superheroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Daily and Ryan Davidson have a fun idea in <em>The Law Of Superheroes.<\/em>\u00a0 They take situations that arise in the comics and show how current and future US law\u00a0 would apply.\u00a0 Extreme hypothetical cases are a good way to understand the ramifications of any set of rules, especially the law, and it&#8217;s tough to come up with more extreme hypotheticals that comics.<\/p>\n<p>The execution was a little dry for me.\u00a0 I felt like too many of the problems had cut-and-dried solutions that would be helpful in getting law students to remember the principles, but that were less thrilling to the layman.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not to say that the book reads like a police blotter.\u00a0 There are several places where interesting aspects of the law pop out, but I think the book would benefit from a deeper look at the more interesting cases, rather than trying to survey too much of the legal landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Worth a look through, especially if you are a law student or have a strong interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Daily and Ryan Davidson have a fun idea in The Law Of Superheroes.\u00a0 They take situations that arise in the comics and show how current and future US law\u00a0 would apply.\u00a0 Extreme hypothetical cases are a good way to understand the ramifications of any set of rules, especially the law, and it&#8217;s tough to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}