Description
How does materiality matter to legal scholarship? What can affect studies offer to legal scholars? What are the connections among visual studies, art history, and the knowledge and experience of law? What can the disciplines of book history, digital humanities, performance studies, disability studies, and post-colonial studies contribute to contemporary and historical understandings of law? These are only some of the important questions addressed in this wide-ranging collection of law and humanities scholarship.Collecting 45 new essays by leading international scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities showcases the work of law and humanities across disciplines, addressing methods, concepts and themes, genres, and areas of the law. The essays explore under-researched domains such as comics, videos, police files, form contracts, and paratexts, and shed new light on traditional topics, such as free speech, intellectual property, international law, indigenous peoples, immigration, evidence, and human rights. The Handbook provides an exciting new agenda for scholarship in law and humanities, and will be essential reading for anyone interested in the intersections of law and humanistic inquiry.
Table of Contents
Part I Methodologies1. Materialism and Legal Historiography, From Bachelard to BenjaminChristopher Tomlins2. Legal MaterialityHyo Yoon Kang and Sara Kendall3. Law, Visual Studies, and Image HistoryCarolin Behrmann4. Book HistoryHenrike Manuwald5. Digital HumanitiesStephen Robertson6. Postcolonial StudiesRenisa Mawani7. Racial Ambiguity Blues: Contemporary Challenges for Racialization Theory in the Twenty-First CenturyCamille Gear Rich8. Disability, Law, and the Humanities: The Rise of Disability Legal StudiesRabia Belt and Doron Dorfman9. Psychoanalysis and LawTracy McNulty10. Affect and Empathy StudiesSuzanne Keen11. Mapping Law and Performance: Reflections on the Dilemmas of an Interdisciplinary ConjunctionJulie Stone PetersPart II Themes12. Spacetime in/and LawMariana Valverde13. Boundaries, Walls, Envelopes, Rooms, and Other Spatialities of LawTimothy Hyde14. The Sociality of the PlatformAnnelise Riles15. PersonhoodJohn Frow16. Trauma, Memory, and the LawNorman W. Spaulding17. Challenging the Legal Self through PerformanceMarett Leiboff18. AccidentDaniel Williams19. Facing Justice: Evidence, Legibility and Pensiveness in the Early Modern ImaginationSubha Mukherji20. The Gap between Fairness and Law: Hamlet and Equity from a Cognitive PerspectiveEllen Spolsky21. From Eternity to Here: Divine Accommodation and the Lost Language of LawNomi M. Stolzenberg22. Machiavelli's Camillus and the Tension between Leadership and DemocracyJohn P. McCormick23. Agonism, Democracy, and LawPanu Minkkinen24. An Anti-Liberal Defense of Free Speech: Foundations of Democracy in the Western Philosophical CanonEric HeinzePart III Areas of Law25. Family LawKhiara M. Bridges26. Human RightsElizabeth S. Anker27. Immigration and the ImperialSherally Munshi28. Indigenous LawGregory Ablavsky, Sarah Deer, and Justin Richland29. Property: Changing Formations of Having and BeingSarah Keenan30. Intellectual Property's Queer TurnAndrew Gilden31. History, Literature, and Authority in International LawChristopher N. Warren32. Uncovering CredibilityJulia Simon-Kerr33. Laws of Sex, ChangedNoa Ben-Asher34. The Functions of Legal Literature and Case Reporting before and after Stare DecisisAndrew Benjamin BrickerPart IV Legal Genres35. Trials and the Impressionism of AdvocacyRex Ferguson36. MaximsDonald R. Davis, Jr.37. ResponsaAri Z. Bryen38. Legal TreatiseSteven Wilf39. Legal Codes as Cultural ProductsHeikki Pihlajamäki40. Form ContractTal Kastner41. Legal ParatextsRobert Spoo42. EmblemsValérie Hayaert43. Video as Text/ArchiveBennett Capers44. Police Records: An Intermedia GenreCristina Vatulescu45. ComicsHillary ChuteIndex
