Law and Literature

Law and Literature: Publications

Alan Ackerman

  • Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America (Yale Univ. Press, 2011)
  • "The Right to Privacy: William Dean Howells and the Rise of Dramatic Realism." American Literary Realism 30:1, Fall 1997: 1-19 (also published as chapter 4 of The Portable Theater: American Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Stage (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002)

Brenda Cossman

Jeannine DeLombard

  • “Melville, Slavery, and Law.” The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville, 2nd ed. Ed. Robert S. Levine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2013
  • The Novel and the Reconstruction Amendments.” The American Novel: 1870-1940. Ed. Priscilla Wald and Michael A. Elliott. Vol. 6 of The Oxford History of the Novel in English. Oxford Univ. Press, forthcoming 2012.
  • “Slave Narratives and U.S. Legal History.” The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative. Ed. John Ernest. Oxford Univ. Press, forthcoming, 2012.
  • In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity (Phila.Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)
  • "Making Waves on the Black Atlantic: The Case of John Anderson ," Slavery & Abolition 33 (2012): 191-204
  • “Law and Literature.” A Companion to American Legal History. Ed. Sally Hadden and Al Brophy. Blackwell Companions to American History Series. Oxford: Blackwell., forthcoming 2012.
  • "Salvaging Legal Personhood: Melville's Benito Cereno," American Literature 81 (2009): 35-64
  • Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture (Studies in Legal History Series, University of North Carolina Press, 2007)
  • "Juridical Rhetoric in the Antebellum Debate over Slavery"
  • "'Eye-Witness to the Cruelty': Southern Violence and Northern Testimony in Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative," American Literature 73.2 (2001) 245-275

Paul Downes

Angela Fernandez

Martin Friedland

Greig Henderson

Karen Knop

Ian Lancashire  

  • "Law and Early Modern English Lexicons," in R. W. McConchie et al., eds., Selected Proceedings of the 2005 Symposium on New Approaches in English Historical Lexis (Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2006), 8-23

Judith McCormack

Ed Morgan

Naomi Morgenstern

  • "The Afterlife of Coverture: Contract and Gift in The Ballad of the Sad Café," differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 16:1 (2005): 103-25
  • "Marriage and Contract," in Shirley Samuels, ed., A Companion to American Fiction, 1780-1865 (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004), 108-18

Mary Nyquist

  • Arbitrary Rule: Slavery, Tyranny and the Power of Life and Death (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
  • “Slavery, Resistance and Nation in Milton and Locke,” Early Modern Nationalism and Milton’s England,” ed. David Loewenstein (University of Toronto Press, 2007)
  • "Hobbes, Slavery, and Despotical Rule," Representations 106 (2009):  1-33
  • "Slavery, Resistance and Nation in Milton and Locke," Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England, ed. David Loewenstein (University of Toronto Press, 2007), pp. 356-400

Simon Stern (Director, Combined Degree Program)

  • "The Third Party Doctrine and the Third Person," 16 New Criminal Law Review (forthcoming 2013)
  • "Speech and Property in David Simple,” 79 ELH: English Lit. Hist. 623-54 (Fall 2012)
  • 'Room for One More':  The Metaphorics of Physical Space in the Eighteenth-Century Copyright Debate,” 24 Law and Literature 113-54 (2012)
  • Detecting Doctrines: The Case Method and the Detective Story” (2011) 23 Yale J.L. & Human. 339-87
  • Literary Evidence and Legal Aestheticsin Austin Sarat, Cathrine Frank, & Matthew Anderson, eds., Teaching Law and Literature (MLA Options for Teaching series) (New York: Modern Language Association, 2011), 244-52
  • Sentimental Frauds,(2011) 36 Law & Soc. Inquiry 83-113
  • The Case and the Exceptions: Creating Instrumental Texts in Law and Literature” in Pat Rogers & Laura Runge, eds., Producing the Eighteenth-Century Book: Writers and Publishers in England, 1650-1800 (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009), 95-116
  • "Copyright, Originality, and the Public Domain in Eighteenth-Century England" in Reginald McGinnis, ed. Originality and Intellectual Property in the French and English Enlightenment (New York: Routledge, 2008)
  • Additional publications

Cheryl Suzack

Holger Schott Syme

Mariana Valverde