Law and literature perspectives

Law and Literature as a term has a variety of meanings: the study of law and legal issues in literature; the use of literature to shape and explore our understandings of law; law as a form of literature; the use of parables and narratives to make legal arguments, the legal regulation of literature; and the use of literary theory to examine legal texts are a few examples. Through classic and contemporary voices, this book shows what Law and Literature means, and what its emergence as a field may contribute to our common understanding of law, justice, and human nature in the twenty-first century.