Reading the legal case : cross currents between law and the humanities / edited by Marco Wan.
2012
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Title
Reading the legal case : cross currents between law and the humanities / edited by Marco Wan.
Published
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Call Number
K100 .R43 2012
ISBN
9780415673549 (hbk)
0415673542 (hbk)
9780203121696 (ebk)
0203121694 (ebk)
0415673542 (hbk)
9780203121696 (ebk)
0203121694 (ebk)
Description
xii, 237 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)757718102
Note
"A GlassHouse book."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
vii
Contributors
viii
Foreword / Mr. Justice Bokhary
x
Introduction / Marco Wan
1
pt. I
Rereading the legal case
9
1.
Reading cases in interdisciplinary studies of law and literature / Alan Durant
11
2.
`I crave the law': Salomon v Salomon, uncanny personhood and the Jews / Christopher Hutton
29
3.
Three close-ups in search of truth: law, cinema, psychoanalysis / Maria Aristodemou
47
4.
Everyday law in the court writing of Sybille Bedford / Elaine Ho
61
5.
Sir William Jones and the translation of law in India / Robert Young
80
6.
The illegality of Empire: moral evasion and confusion of historians and literary critics in their reflections on the impeachment trial of Warren Hastings / Anthony Carty
90
pt. II
Perspectives on precedent
107
7.
The making of legal cases and the idea of precedent in the common law / Thanos Zartaloudis
109
8.
On the edge of reason: law at the borderline / Janny Leung
128
9.
Stare decisis in China? The newly enacted Guiding Case System / Seth Gurgel
142
10.
Judging judgment in Chinua Achebe's No Longer at Ease / Katherine Isobel Baxter
159
pt. III
Reading literature in a legal frame
173
11.
The dramatic imagination and the dream of law / Paul Raffield
175
12.
The intellectual - Hamlet / Kenji Yoshino
190
13.
Stare decisis, binding precedent, and Anthony Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds / Marco Wan
205
14.
Binding precedent: Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Scott Veitch
217
Index
231