Law and Literature: Publications and Theses

Doctoral Theses

Michael Donnelly, Becoming Human: Inventing Human Rights in Twentieth-Century English Literature and International Law (PhD thesis, Department of English, in progress)

Jordana Lobo-Pires, The Subject of the Law: Constructing Imperial Relations in the Law and Literature of Early Modern England  (PhD thesis, Department of English, in progress)

Joel Rodgers, Speaking in Synecdoches: Individuals and the Nation in Early Modern Law and Literature  (PhD thesis, Department of English, in progress)

Jennifer Brudner Nadler, A Life of One’s Own: Freedom and Obligation in the Novels of Henry James (SJD thesis, Faculty of Law, 2012)

Trevor Cook, Plagiarism and Proprietary Authorship in Early Modern England, 1590-1640 (PhD thesis, Department of English, 2011)

Virginia Strain, Perfecting the Law: Law Reform and Literary Forms in the 1590s and 1600s (PhD Thesis, Department of English, 2011)

Stephen Yeager, Poetic Properties: Legal Forms and Literary Documents in Early English Literature (PhD Thesis, Department of English, 2010)

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

• "Censor, Resist, Repeat: A History of Censorship of Gay and Lesbian Sexual Representation in Canada." Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 21 (2014): 45-66.
• "Continental Drift: Queer, Feminism, Postcolonial," 4 Jindal Global Review (2012): 17-35
• "Where Did Feminism Go? Reflections of a Slightly Lapsed Feminist," (2011) 9(2) Issues in Legal Scholarship (article no. 5)
• "The Opt Out Revolution and the Changing Narratives of Motherhood" (2009) Utah Law Review 455.
• Sexual Citizens: The Legal and Cultural Regulation of Sex and Belonging, (Stanford University Press, 2007).
• Bad Attitude/s on Trial: Pornography, Feminism and the Butler Decision, with Shannon Bell, Lise Gotell and Becki Ross, (Univ. of Toronto Press, 1997)
• "Customs Censorship and the Charter: The Little Sisters Case" (1996) 7 Constitutional Forum 103-112
• Censorship and the Arts: Law, Controversy, Debate, Facts (Ontario Ass'n of Art Galleries, 1995)
• Additional publications

Paul Downes

• "Does the Declaration of Independence Declare a State of Emergency?" Canadian Review of American Studies 42 (2012): 7-20
• "Eighty-Nine Divided by Seventy-Six," American Literary History 23 (2011): 83-101
• "Melville's Benito Cereno and the Politics of Humanitarian Intervention," South Atlantic Quarterly 103:2/3 (2004)
• "Fiction and Democracy," in Blackwell Companion to American Fiction, 1780-1865, (2004)
• Democracy, Revolution and Monarchism in Early American Literature, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002
• "Constitutional Secrets: Memoirs of Carwin and the Politics of Concealment," Criticism 39.1 (1997)
• "Sleep-Walking Out of the Revolution: Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly," Eighteenth-Century Studies 29.4 (1996): 413-31
• "Constitutional Secrets: Memoirs of Carwin and the Politics of Concealment,"Criticism 39 (1997): 89-117

Angela Fernandez

• "The Ancient and Honorable Court of Dover: Mock Trials, Fraternal Orders, and Solemn Foolery in Nineteenth-Century New York State" (in progress, link to draft available through SSRN)
• "Copying and Copyright Issues at the Litchfield Law School," 47:2 Connecticut History (Fall 2008): 219-36
• "Legal Education & A Civil Action in Canada: (In)visibility of the  Courtroom in Film" (PDF) (Paper presented at the Chief Justice of Ontario's  Advisory Committee on Professionalism, Sixth Colloquium on the Legal  Profession, "Law and Lawyers in Literature and Film" hosted by the  Law Society of Upper Canada & the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 20 March 2006)
• "Albert Mayrand's Private Law Library: An Investigation of the Person, the Law of Persons, and 'Legal Personality' in a Collection of Law Books" (2003) 53 University of Toronto Law Journal 37

Martin Friedland

• (ed.) Rough Justice: Essays on Crime in Literature, 1991
• The Trials of Israel Lipski (Beaufort Books, 1984)(Crime Writers of Canada Award for Non-fiction)
• The Case of Valentine Shortis, (Univ. of Toronto Press, 1986)
• The Death of Old Man Rice, (NYU Press, 1994 )

Greig Henderson

• "The Cost of Persuasion:  Figure, Story, and Eloquence in the Rhetoric of Judicial Discourse," University of Toronto Quarterly 75.4 (2006) 905-924

Karen Knop

• "The Tokyo Women's Tribunal and the Turn to Fiction" in Fleur Johns et al., eds., Events: The Force of International Law (London: Routledge, 2010) 145-164
• "Utopia Without Apology: Form and Imagination in the Work of Ronald St. John Macdonald" (2002) 40 Canadian Yearbook of International Law 287

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

• The Rule of Last Clear Chance, 2003

Ed Morgan

• "The UN's Book of Judges" 16 Global Governance 160 (2010).
• "Sunshine Cases of a Little Constitution", 43 Journal of Canadian Studies 146 (2009).
• "Fear and Loathing in Jus Cogens", 63 Canadian International Journal 101 (2008).
• “Yom Kippur in Hell", in R. Miller, and R.Bratspies, eds., Progress in International Law (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishing / Martinus Nijhoff Publishers) (2008).
• The Aesthetics of International Law (University of Toronto Press, 2007)
• "Cannibal Holocaust: Digesting and Re-Digesting Law and Film" (2007) 16 USC Interdisciplinary Law Journal 555
• "The Mild, Mild West: Living By a Code in Canadian Law and Film" (2006) 2 Law, Culture and the Humanities 115 (2006)
• "The Crying of Rule 49" (2004) 54 University of Toronto Law Journal 1

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)
• "Judicial Originality and Copyright Originality," 63 University of Toronto Law Journal (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 Aesthetics” in 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

• "The Transposition of Law and Literature in Delgamuukw and Monkey Beach." South Atlantic Quarterly 110.2 (Spring 2011): 447-463.
• “Land Claims, Identity Claims: Mapping Indigenous Feminism in Literary Criticism and in Winona LaDuke’s Last Standing Woman.” Reasoning Together. Ed. Craig Womack. U of Oklahoma P, 2008. 169-92
• “Notes Towards Establishing a Property Interest in Aboriginal Culture.” Race & Racism in 21st Century Canada. Ed. Sean P. Hier and B. Singh Bolaria. Broadview, 2007. 217-34
• “Law Stories as Life Stories: Jeannette Lavell, Yvonne Bedard, and Half-breed.” Auto/Biography: Trace, Text, Telling. Ed. Marlene Kadar, Susanna Egan, Jeanne Perreault, and Linda Warley. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2005. 117-41

Holger Schott Syme

• Theatre and Testimony in Shakespeare’s England: A Culture of Mediation (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012)
• “(Mis)representing Justice on the Early Modern Stage,” Studies in Philology 109 (2012): 63-85.
• "Judicial Digest: Edward Coke Reads the Earl of Essex," in Bill Bell and Ross Alloway, eds., The Reader in History (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, forthcoming 2012)
• “Becoming Speech: Voicing the Text in Early Modern English Courtrooms and Theatres.” Compar(a)ison: An International Journal of Comparative Literature I/2003(published 2007): 107-24

Mariana Valverde

• Law and Order: Signs, Meanings, Myths (2006)
• Nietzche and Legal Theory: Half-written Laws (co-edited with Peter Goodrich) (2005)
• Law's Dream of a Common Knowledge (2003)