Oxford LibGuides: Law & Literature: Law and humanities

Culture, society, anthropology

Intersections of Law and Culture by Priska Gisler (Editor); Sara Steinert Borella (Editor); Caroline Wiedmer (Editor)
Call Number: General 510 G533.5a
ISBN: 9780230293830
Publication Date: 2012-11-30
"Boundary-loping" monograph on law's interactions with culture.
Legal Studies As Cultural Studies: a reader in (post) modern critical theory by Jerry D. Leonard (Editor)
Call Number: Jurisp 510 L581a
ISBN: 0791422968
Publication Date: 1995-01-13
From Civil to Human Rights: dialogues on law and humanities in the United States and Europe by Helle Porsdam
Call Number: General 510 P838b
ISBN: 9781847209016
Publication Date: 2009-08-31
A law-and-humanities scholar investigates the narrative of Western human rights. Includes a chapter called 'Transaltlantic dialogues on "law and literature": from "law and literature" to law and humanities'.
Visualizing Law and Authority: Essays on Legal Aesthetics by Leif Dahlberg (Editor)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via link
ISBN: 9783110285376
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Aesthetic aspects of legal institutions are examined in a collection of essays with contributions by scholars such as Martin Kayman, Gary Watt, Elina Druker, Sidia Fiorato, Ari Hirvonen, Max Liljefors, Christine Poggi, Daniela Carpi, and Richard Sherwin.

Law As Communication by David Nelken
Call Number: Jurisp 510 N419a
ISBN: 1855217198
Publication Date: 1996-03-01
Theoretical and multidisciplinary views on law and its ways of communicating.
Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law by Andrei Marmor (Editor); Scott Soames (Editor)
Call Number: Jurisp 510 M352g and online
ISBN: 9780199572380
Publication Date: 2011-08-11
Rhetorical Processes and Legal Judgments: how language and arguments shape struggles for rights and power by Austin Sarat (Editor)
Call Number: K100.SAR 2016
ISBN: 9781107155503
Publication Date: 2016-09-01
Poethics and Other Strategies of Law and Literature by Richard H. Weisberg; Richard Weisberg
Call Number: Jurisp 510 W425.7a
ISBN: 9780231074544
Publication Date: 1992-03-11
Weisburg argues for rhetoric's ethical value to law, investigating traditional authors such as Dickens and Shakespeare in the course of this goal.