Reading the legal case : cross currents between law and the humanities / edited by Marco Wan.

'A GlassHouse book.'

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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