Artistic Freedom in Fear City: Abeyance and the Legal Ecology of Collapse
Law, Culture and the Humanities
Published online on June 05, 2026
Abstract
Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print.
The article examines the relationship between law and cultural production through the concept of legal abeyance: a condition in which legal rules persist formally but recede in practice. Focusing on New York City’s fiscal crisis of the late 1970s, it ...
The article examines the relationship between law and cultural production through the concept of legal abeyance: a condition in which legal rules persist formally but recede in practice. Focusing on New York City’s fiscal crisis of the late 1970s, it ...