Table of Contents
Part I Methodologies;
1. Materialism and Legal Historiography, From Bachelard to Benjamin Christopher Tomlins;
2. Legal Materiality Hyo Yoon Kang and Sara Kendall;
3. Law, Visual Studies, and Image History Carolin Behrmann;
4. Book History Henrike Manuwald;
5. Digital Humanities Stephen Robertson;
6. Postcolonial Studies Renisa Mawani;
7. Racial Ambiguity Blues: Contemporary Challenges for Racialization Theory in the Twenty-First Century Camille Gear Rich;
8. Disability, Law, and the Humanities: The Rise of Disability Legal Studies Rabia Belt and Doron Dorfman;
9. Psychoanalysis and Law Tracy McNulty;
10. Affect and Empathy Studies Suzanne Keen;
11. Mapping Law and Performance: Reflections on the Dilemmas of an Interdisciplinary Conjunction Julie Stone Peters;
Part II Themes;
12. Spacetime in/and Law Mariana Valverde;
13. Boundaries, Walls, Envelopes, Rooms, and Other Spatialities of Law Timothy Hyde;
14. The Sociality of the Platform Annelise Riles;
15. Personhood John Frow;
16. Trauma, Memory, and the Law Norman W. Spaulding;
17. Challenging the Legal Self through Performance Marett Leiboff;
18. Accident Daniel Williams;
19. Facing Justice: Evidence, Legibility and Pensiveness in the Early Modern Imagination Subha Mukherji;
20. The Gap between Fairness and Law: Hamlet and Equity from a Cognitive Perspective Ellen Spolsky;
21. From Eternity to Here: Divine Accommodation and the Lost Language of Law Nomi M. Stolzenberg;
22. Machiavelli's Camillus and the Tension between Leadership and Democracy John P. McCormick;
23. Agonism, Democracy, and Law Panu Minkkinen;
24. An Anti-Liberal Defense of Free Speech: Foundations of Democracy in the Western Philosophical Canon Eric Heinze;
Part III Areas of Law ;
25. Family Law Khiara M. Bridges;
26. Human Rights Elizabeth S. Anker;
27. Immigration and the Imperial Sherally Munshi;
28. Indigenous Law Gregory Ablavsky, Sarah Deer, and Justin Richland;
29. Property: Changing Formations of Having and Being Sarah Keenan;
30. Intellectual Property's Queer Turn Andrew Gilden;
31. History, Literature, and Authority in International Law Christopher N. Warren;
32. Uncovering Credibility Julia Simon-Kerr;
33. Laws of Sex, Changed Noa Ben-Asher;
34. The Functions of Legal Literature and Case Reporting before and after Stare Decisis Andrew Benjamin Bricker;
Part IV Legal Genres;
35. Trials and the Impressionism of Advocacy Rex Ferguson;
36. Maxims Donald R. Davis, Jr.;
37. Responsa Ari Z. Bryen;
38. Legal Treatise Steven Wilf;
39. Legal Codes as Cultural Products Heikki Pihlajamäki;
40. Form Contract Tal Kastner;
41. Legal Paratexts Robert Spoo;
42. Emblems Valérie Hayaert;
43. Video as Text/Archive Bennett Capers;
44. Police Records: An Intermedia Genre Cristina Vatulescu;
45. Comics Hillary Chute;
Index