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69 Ala. L. Rev. 381 (2017-2018)
Aesthetic Judgment in Law

handle is hein.journals/bamalr69 and id is 401 raw text is: AESTHETIC JUDGMENT IN LAW Brian Soucek* ABSTRACT................................................ ......382 INTRODUCTION.................................................382 I. AESTHETICS THROUGHOUT THE LAW .....................387 A. Public Funding................................389 B. Taxes and Tarifs...............................396 1. Taxes.................... ................396 2. Tariffs.....................................404 C. Land Use.....................................412 D. Obscenity....................................419 E. Intellectual Property............... .............426 1. Copyright Infringement........................427 2. Fair Use..................................431 3. Beauty Versus Utility .................... .........437 4. VARA .................... ................442 II. THREE ARGUMENTS AGAINST AESTHETIC JUDGMENT .............446 A. Judicial Competence............................448 B. Relativism....................................450 C. Freedom of Expression...........................456 III. WHEN To ALLOW AESTHETIC JUDGMENT .......................458 CONCLUSION......................................................... 466 * Acting Professor of Law and Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall Research Scholar, University of California, Davis School of Law; J.D., Yale Law School; Ph.D. (Philosophy), Columbia University. I am grateful for comments I received at the 2016 HarvardlStanfordlYale Junior Faculty Forum (especially those of my commentators, Bruce Ackerman and Richard Thompson Ford); the 2015 Yale Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference (where my discussant was Kate Kionick); UC Irvine's faculty workshop; the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics; the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at the Rhode Island School of Design; the Art and Law Program run by Sergio Mufloz Sarmiento, and Lauren van Haaften-Schick; and the East Bay Junior Scholars Workshop. I have beniefitted greatly from discussions with Andrew Gilden, Lydia Goehr, Michael Kelly, Felix Koch, Gregory Magarian, Jonathan Neufeld, and my colleagues at UC Davis School of Law, especially Mario Biagioli, Ashutosh Bhagwat, Alan Brownstein, Tom Joo, Carlton Larson, Peter Lee, Madhavi Sunder, Darien Shanske, and Aaron Tang. I have also relied on generous funding from Dean Kevin Johnson and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall Research Fund; the very able research assistance of King Hall students Karl Lindemann, Jane Martin, Reema Pangarkar, Kelsey Santamaria, Nick Sweeney, and Katherine Wittlake; and help from law librarians Elisabeth McKechnie and Peg Durkin, 381

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