Fascinating and varied, the volume crosses many boundaries, dealing with areas as diverse as football-based computer games, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, digital sampling in the music industry, the films of Sidney Lumet, football hooliganism, and Enid Blyton.

These topics are linked together through the key thread of the role of, or the absence of, law - therefore providing a snapshot of significant work in the burgeoning field of law and popular culture.

Including important theoretical and truly innovative, relevant material, this contemporary text will enliven and inform a legal audience, and will also appeal to a much broader readership of people interested in this highly topical area.

Edited by Steven Greenfield and Guy Osborn, both at the University of Westminster, UK.

After much anticipation and editorial angst, the new incarnation of what was once Entertainment Law and is now ESLJ was published online in all its glory in late September 2005. We hope that it provides our many readers and submitters with a new venue to share ideas and find information.