This book demonstrates that law can be newly interrogated when
examined through the lens of literature. The book creates simple
pathways which energise and illustrate the links between legal
theory and legal science and doctrine through the wider visions of
history, literature and culture. This broadening approach is
integral to understanding law in the context of wider debates and
media in the community. The book provides a collection of essays,
with additional commentary which reflects upon very recent
scholarship and debate on a range of ethico-legal topics; it also
illustrates how conventional legal matters may be rendered lively
and palatable, as an adjunct to approaching doctrine and cases
'cold' in the conventional textbook manner. The chapters range from
examination of current thought on cohabitation and marriage laws
(via Jude the Obscure), 19th century medico-legal cases relevant to
current narratives of insanity in women and the nature and status
of expert evidence generally; assisted suicide and autonomy (via a
poem by Jon Stallworthy) to an essay on the nature of race and
ethnicity (via a poem by R S Thomas), a discussion of obscenity and
moral philosophy (via an essay on Crash by J G Ballard and the
philosophy of Bernard Williams) and a history of ideas discussion
of positivism, natural law and political crisis, war and terrorism
through legal and political theory texts and a poem by Auden. The
materials refer to case law where appropriate.
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