This edited collection provides the first accessible introduction to Law and Humanities. Each chapter explores the nature, development and possible further trajectory of a disciplinary law and field. Each chapter is written by an expert in the respective field and addresses how the two disciplines of law and the other respective field operate. This edited work, therefore, fulfils a real and pressing need to provide an accessible, introductory but critical guide to law and humanities as a whole by exploring how each disciplinary law and field has developed, contributes to further scrutinizing the content and role of law, and how it can contribute and be enriched by being understood within the law and humanities tradition as a whole.
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Law and Humanities offers a broad overview of the connections between humanities topics and the legal system, including theology, popular music, television, comic books, and archaeology, among other subjects. - CHOICE This edited work fulfils a real and pressing need to provide an accessible, introductory but critical guide to law and humanities as a whole by exploring how each disciplinary 'law and' field has developed, contributes to further scrutinizing the content and role of law, and how it can contribute and be enriched by being understood within the law and humanities tradition as a whole. -- Midwest Law and Humanities names a vast and important area of inquiry that covers many academic disciplines and methodologies. Russell Sandberg and Daniel Newman have done a real service to the field by producing a comprehensive and accessible introduction. They have assembled a distinguished group of contributors and a wonderful collection of essays. I recommend this book highly. Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence & Political Science, Amherst College Law and Humanities provides a thorough and thoughtful overview of the study of law and. Each chapter fills in the blank with a different discipline, thereby introducing readers to the rich array of fields tended by scholars and the techniques they use to cultivate legal insights in unusual terrain. In the end, as the book shows, when the borders between them are suspended, both law and the humanities are transformed. Jennifer L. Culbert, Associate Professor, Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
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The only edited collection that provides the first accessible, introductory but critical guide to law and humanities;explores law and humanities field by field; and represents a major work in the development of law and humanities as well as interdisciplinary legal studies generally.
Preface; List of Contributors; One Introducing Law and Humanities,
Daniel Newman and Russell Sandberg; Two Law and Archaeology, Emma Nottingham;
Three Law and Comics/Graphic Justice, Angus Nurse; Four Law and Film, Steve
Greenfield, Guy Osborn and Peter Robson; Five Law and Geography, Cristy Clark
and John Page; Six Law and History, Russell Sandberg; Seven Law and
Literature, Ian Ward; Eight Law and Philosophy, Daniel Newman; Nine Law and
Popular Music, Robbie Sykes and Kieran Tranter; Ten Law and Religion, Russell
Sandberg; Eleven Law and Television; Jennifer L. Schulz; Twelve Law and
Theatre, Barbara Hughes-Moore; Thirteen Law and Theology, Norman Doe;
Fourteen Law and Video Games, Ashley Pearson Fifteen Conclusion: Subverting
the Law and Humanities Canon, Sara Ramshaw; Index
Daniel Newman is Professor of Law at Cardiff University. His research interests focus around access to justice including exploring popular understandings of law and justice through music.
Russell Sandberg is Professor of Law at Cardiff University. His research interrogates the interaction between law and humanities, with particular reference to law and religion and legal history.
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