Legal theory and the humanities
Contents: Introduction. Part I Imagination, Emotion and the Particular: Empathy, legal storytelling, and the rule of law: new words, old wounds?, Toni M. Massaro Poets as judges: judicial rhetoric and the literary imagination, Martha C. Nussbaum The echo of a sentimental jurisprudence, Ian Ward. Part II Voice, Perspective and Community: The judicial opinion and the poem: ways of reading, ways of life, James Boyd White Law as rhetoric, rhetoric as law: the arts of cultural and communal life, James Boyd White The judicial opinion as literary genre, Robert A. Ferguson Narrative transactions - does the law need a narratology?, Peter Brooks Ghosts of law and humanities (past, present, future), Marett Leiboff. Part III Image, Vision and Pattern: The aesthetics of American law, Pierre Schlag Tele-tribunals: anatomy of a medium, Cornelia Vismann Precrime never pays! 'Law and economics' in Minority Report, William P. MacNeil Visiocracy: on the futures of the fingerpost, Peter Goodrich. Part IV Space, Music and Performance: Law, music, and other performing arts, Sanford Levinson and J.M. Balkin Theatre of deferral: the image of the law and the architecture of the Inns of Court, David Evans Prelude: senses and symbols in aesthetic experience, Desmond Manderson Legal performance good and bad, Julie Stone Peters Screening law, Peter Goodrich. Index.