Research Guides: Legal Studies: Law & Humanities

Introduction to Law and Humanities

[It is] a fact too often forgotten – that law touches at some point every conceivable human interest, and that its study is, perhaps above all others, precisely the one which leads straight to the humanities. --Ernest W. Huffcutt, “The Literature of Law” (1892)

Law and the Humanities: An Introduction by Austin Sarat (Editor); Matthew D. Anderson (Editor); Cathrine O. Frank (Editor)
Call Number: K487.H86 L39 2010
ISBN: 0521899052
Publication Date: 2009
Law and the Humanities: An Introduction brings together a distinguished group of scholars from law schools and an array of the disciplines in the humanities. This book is, at one and the same time, a stock taking both of different national traditions and of the various modes and subjects of law and humanities scholarship.
The Legal Imagination by James Boyd
Call Number: KF250 .W452 1985
ISBN: 1454897120
Publication Date: 2018
"This book is to be highly recommended: certainly, for those who find the time to read it, it will broaden the mind, and give lawyers a new insight into their role." --New Law Journal
A Critical Introduction to Law and Literature by Kieran Dolin
Call Number: PN56.L33 D65 2007
ISBN: 0521807433
Publication Date: 2007
Despite their apparent separation, law and literature have been closely linked fields throughout history.
Law and Literature by Ian Ward
Call Number: PN56.L33 W35 1995
ISBN: 0521474744
Publication Date: 1995
The emergence of an interdisciplinary study of law and literature is one of the most exciting theoretical developments taking place in North America and Britain. In Law and Literature: Possibilities and Perspectives Ian Ward explores the educative ambitions of the law and literature movement, and its already established critical, ethical and political potential.

Key Journals

Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities
Since its inception in 1989, the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities (YJLH) has become a premier forum for examining the intersection of law and the liberal arts. Grounded in the ever-deepening awareness that cutting-edge interdisciplinary exploration is crucial to a fuller understanding of both the law and the world at large, YJLH provides a unique intellectual arena to scholars of several disciplines.
ISSN: 1041-6374
Journal of Law, Philosophy and Culture
The Center for Law, Philosophy and Culture exists to provide a forum for inquiry into the meaning of law and legal institutions as they relate to culture and the human good. It sponsors academic and public-policy explorations of the diverse ways in which law and legal institutions may express a cultural orientation to the human good or serve to renew and transform culture in the light of human and moral ideals.
ISSN: 1939-7917
Law and Humanities
Law and Humanities is a peer-reviewed journal, providing a forum for scholarly discourse within the
arts and humanities around the subject of law. For this purpose, the arts and humanities disciplines are
taken to include literature, history (including history of art), philosophy, theology, classics and the whole
spectrum of performance and representational arts.
ISSN: 1752-1483
Law, Culture, and the Humanities
The mission of Law, Culture, and the Humanities is to publish high quality work at the intersection of scholarship on law, culture, and the humanities.
ISSN: 1743-8721
Law and Literature
Law and Literature was founded in 1988 as the journal of the Law and Literature movement. It has since become the leading interdisciplinary law journal directed to law and the arts, with a specific focus on critical theory and literary expression in its diverse media and forms.
ISSN: 1535-685X
Law Text Culture
Law Text Culture is a trans-continental peer reviewed journal. It publishes critical thinking and creative writing across a range of genres - from artwork and fiction to the traditional scholarly essay.
ISSN: 1322-9060

Interdisciplinary Legal Studies

Literary Criticisms of Law by Guyora Binder; Robert Weisberg
Call Number: K487.C8 B56 2000
ISBN: 0691007233
Publication Date: 2000
Law and Literature: Journeys From Her [sic] to Eternity by Maria Aristodemou
Call Number: PN56.L33 A75 2000
ISBN: 0198764367
Publication Date: 2001
Law as Culture: An Invitation by Lawrence Rosen
Call Number: K487.C8 R67 2006
ISBN: 0691125554
Publication Date: 2006
Intersections of Law and Culture by Priska Gisler (Editor); Sara Steinert Borella (Editor); Caroline Wiedmer (Editor)
Call Number: K487.C8 I685 2012
ISBN: 0230293832
Publication Date: 2012
Legal Studies as Cultural Studies by Jerry D. Leonard (Editor)
Call Number: K487.C8 L44 1995
ISBN: 0791422968
Publication Date: 1995
From Civil to Human Rights: Dialogues on Law and Humanities in the United States and Europe by Helle Porsdam
Call Number: K3240 .P67 2009
ISBN: 1847209017
Publication Date: 2009
Law and Art: Justice, Ethics and Aesthetics by Oren Ben-dor (Editor)
Call Number: K487.A3 L394 2011
ISBN: 0415560217
Publication Date: 2011
Visualizing Law and Authority: Essays on Legal Aesthetics by Leif Dahlberg (Editor)
Call Number: K487.A3 V57 2012
ISBN: 3110285371
Publication Date: 2012
Law and Aesthetics by Adam Gearey
Call Number: K487.A3 G43 2001
ISBN: 1841132438
Publication Date: 2001
Law as Communication by Mark Van Hoecke; Max Travers (Editor)
Call Number: K213 .H64 2002
ISBN: 1841133418
Publication Date: 2002
Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law by Andrei Marmor (Editor); Scott Soames (Editor)
Call Number: K213 .P4934 2011
ISBN: 0199572380
Publication Date: 2011
Rhetorical Processes and Legal Judgments by Austin Sarat (Editor)
Call Number: K213 .R488 2016
ISBN: 1316609022
Publication Date: 2017

Database searching

Legal Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Legal Source provides access to an extensive range of full-text legal content. It offers information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics, such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical law, labor and human resource law, ethics, and the environment. Legal Source includes the Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective and the Index to Legal Periodicals & Books.

Search Legal Source (EBSCO) with a combination of the following terms:

Law and Literature
Law and Humanities
Law in Literature
Literature in Law
Law and Culture
Law and Language
Law and Communication
Law and Ethics
Law and Anthropology
Law and Philosophy

Other terms: rhetoric, poetry, fiction, art, aesthetics, society, social justice, human rights, narrative, interpretation, criticism, critique, literary techniques, postmodern, feminism

Law and Literature - Key Figures

The following are some important contributors to the 'Law and Literature' movement:

Law and Ethics

Legal Ethics and Human Dignity by David Luban
Call Number: K123 .L83 2007
ISBN: 0521118247
Publication Date: 2009
Fighting Fair: Legal Ethics for an Adversarial Age by Allan C. Hutchinson
Call Number: K123 .H88 2015
ISBN: 1107539706
Publication Date: 2015
Legal Ethics (University Casebook Series) by Deborah Rhode; David Luban
Call Number: KF306 .R465 2016
ISBN: 163459911X
Publication Date: 2016
Literature and Legal Problem Solving: Law and Literature as Ethical Discourse by Paul J. Heald (Editor)
Call Number: PN56.L33 L57 1998
ISBN: 0890897913
Publication Date: 1998
The Structures of Law and Literature: Duty, Justice, and Evil in the Cultural Imagination by Jeffrey Miller
ISBN: 0773541632
Publication Date: 2013
PN56.L33 M55 2013
Literature and Legal Discourse: Equity and Ethics from Sterne to Conrad by Dieter Paul Polloczek
Call Number: PR830.L43 P65 1999
ISBN: 0521652510
Publication Date: 1999
Poethics and Other Strategies of Law and Literature by Richard H. Weisberg
ISBN: 0231074549
Publication Date: 1992
Narrative, Authority and Law by Robin L. West
Call Number: K235 .W47 1993
ISBN: 0472103652
Publication Date: 1993