• An exploration of the many relationships between law and literature.
  
• Looks at what law and literature can learn from one another.
  
• Makes those involved in literary studies more conscious of the impact that law has had on literary history.
  
• Treats subjects as diverse as Socrates and Marx.
  
• Contributors are significant scholars from the fields of legal theory and critical theory.

Adam Gearey is Senior Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck College, London.

Joseph Brooker is Lecturer in English at Birkbeck College, London.