Introduction Kieran Dolin; Part I. Origins: 1. The revival of legal humanism Klaus Stierstorfer; 2. Law meets critical theory Peter Leman; 3. Narrative and law Cathrine O. Frank; 4. Law and literature and history Christine L. Krueger; Part II.

Development: 5. Law and literature in the ancient world Ioannis Ziogas; 6. The 'parallel evolutions' of medieval law and literature Stephen Yeager; 7. Literature and equity in early modern England Mark Fortier; 8. Gender, law and the birth of bourgeois civil society Cheryl Nixon; 9. Romanticism, Gothicism and law Bridget Marshall; 10. Strange cases in Victorian Britain: Browning to Wilde Kieran Dolin; 11. Forming the nation in nineteenth-century America Nan Goodman; 12.

Legal modernism Rex Ferguson; 13. Representing lawyers in contemporary American literature: the case of O. J. Simpson Diana Shahinyan; 14. Law in contemporary Anglophone literature Eugene McNulty; 15. Narrative and legal plurality in postcolonial nations: chapter and verse from the East African Court of appeal Stephanie Jones; Part III. Applications: 16. Literary representations and social justice in an age of civil rights: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Helle Porsdam; 17.

Trauma, narrative and literary or legal justice Golnar Nabizadeh; 18. The regulation of authorship: literary property and the aesthetics of distance Robin Wharton; 19. Cases as cultural events: privacy, the Hossack Trial and Susan Glaspell's 'A Journey of her Peers' Marco Wan; 20. Creativity and censorship laws: lessons from the 1920s Nancy Paxton.