By: Austin Sarat (Editor), Matthew D. Anderson (Editor), Cathrine O. Frank (Editor)

Hardcover

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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
Perspectives on the History and Significance of Scholarship in Law and the Humanities: Three Views
A humanities of resistance: fragments for a legal history of humanity
Three tales of two texts: an introduction to law and the humanities
Law, culture, and humility
Ideas of Justice
Biblical: the passion of the God of justice
Natural and human
Positive
Postmodern justice
Imagining the Law
The novel
Imagining law as film: representation without reference
Law and television: screen phenomena and captive audiences
Art
Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Processes in Law
Language
Interpretation
Narrative and rhetoric
Justice as translation
The constitution of history and memory
Institutional Processes
Trials
Testimony, witnessing
Judgment in law and the humanities
Punishment
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ISBN: 9780521899055
ISBN-10: 0521899052
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 552
Published: 30th October 2009
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR
Dimensions (cm): 23.7 x 15.9  x 3.4
Weight (kg): 0.852