Reading the legal case : cross currents between law and the humanities /
edited by Marco Wan.
- xii, 237 pages ; 25 cm.
'A GlassHouse book.'
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reading cases in interdisciplinary studies of law and literature / 'I crave the law' : Salomon v. Salomon, uncanny personhood and the Jews / Three close-ups in search of truth : law, cinema, psychoanalysis / Everyday law in the court writing of Sybille Bedford / Sir William Jones and the translation of law in India / The illegality of empire : moral evasion and confusion of historians and literary critics in their reflections on the impeachment trial of Warren Hastings / The making of legal cases and the idea of precedent in the common law / On the edge of reason : law at the borderline / Stare decisis in China? : The newly enacted guiding case system / Judging judgment in Chinua Achebe's No longer at ease / The dramatic imagination and the dream of law / The intellectual : Hamlet / Stare decisis, binding precedent, and Anthony Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds / Binding precedent : Robert Louis Steven's Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Alan Durant -- Christopher Hutton -- Maria Aristodemou -- Elaine Ho -- Robert Young -- Tony Carty -- Thanos Zartaloudis -- Janny Leung -- Ping Yu and Seth Gurgel -- Katherine Baxter -- Paul Raffield -- Kenji Yoshino -- Marco Wan -- Scott Veitch.