Law and the Humanities: An Introduction

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

• ISBN13: 9780521899055
• ISBN10: 0521899052
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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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