Law and the Humanities
An Introduction

A review and analysis of existing scholarship on the different national traditions and on the various modes and subjects of law and humanities.

Austin Sarat (Edited by), Matthew Anderson (Edited by), Cathrine O. Frank (Edited by)

9780521899055, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 30 October 2009

552 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.9 kg

Law and the Humanities: An Introduction brings together a distinguished group of scholars from law schools and an array of the disciplines in the humanities. Contributors come from the United States and abroad in recognition of the global reach of this field. This book is, at one and the same time, a stock taking both of different national traditions and of the various modes and subjects of law and humanities scholarship. It is also an effort to chart future directions for the field. By reviewing and analyzing existing scholarship and providing thematic content and distinctive arguments, it offers to its readers both a resource and a provocation. Thus, Law and the Humanities marks the maturation of this 'law and' enterprise and will spur its further development.

Introduction: on the origins and prospects of the humanistic study of law Austin Sarat, Matthew Anderson and Cathrine Frank
Part I. Perspectives on the History and Significance of Scholarship in Law and the Humanities: Three Views: 1. A humanities of resistance: fragments for a legal history of humanity Costas Douzinas
2. Three tales of two texts: an introduction to law and the humanities Kathryn Abrams
3. Law, culture, and humility Steven L. Winter
Part II. Ideas of Justice: 4. Biblical: the passion of the God of justice Chaya Halberstam
5. Natural and human Catherine Kellogg
6. Positive Matthew Smith
7. Postmodern justice Peter Goodrich
Part III. Imagining the Law: 8. The novel Susan Sage Heinzelman
9. Imagining law as film: representation without reference Richard Sherwin
10. Law and television: screen phenomena and captive audiences Susanna Lee
11. Art Christine Farley
Part IV. Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Processes in Law: 12. Language Penny Pether
13. Interpretation Jay Mootz
14. Narrative and rhetoric Ravit Reichman
15. Justice as translation Harriet Murav
16. The constitution of history and memory Ariela Gross
Part V. Institutional Processes: 17. Trials Lindsay Farmer
18. Testimony, witnessing Jan-Melissa Schramm
19. Judgment in law and the humanities Desmond Manderson
20. Punishment Karl Shoemaker.

Subject Areas: Law & society [LAQ], Jurisprudence & philosophy of law [LAB]