Download This PaperPiercing the Corporate Veil - with a Stake? Vampire Imagery in American Caselaw
6 Pages Posted: 2 Sep 2005
Date Written: 2003
Abstract
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.
Keywords: Vampire, metaphor, law as literature
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Sutherland, Sharon, Piercing the Corporate Veil - with a Stake? Vampire Imagery in American Caselaw (2003). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=796826 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.796826
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