Law and the Humanities : An Introduction (Paperback)

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.