Law and the Humanities An Introduction [Hardcover]

A review and analysis of existing scholarship on the different national traditions and on the various modes and subjects of law and humanities.This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars, working in the United States and abroad, from law schools and from an array of disciplines in the humanities to review and analyze existing scholarship and provide thematic content and distinctive arguments on the different national traditions and on the various modes and subjects of law and humanities.This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars, working in the United States and abroad, from law schools and from an array of disciplines in the humanities to review and analyze existing scholarship and provide thematic content and distinctive arguments on the different national traditions and on the various modes and subjects of law and humanities.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. Contributors come from the United States and abroad in recognition of the global reach of this field. 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. It is also an effort to chart future directions for the field. By reviewing and analyzing existing scholarship and providing thematic content and distinctive arguments, it offers to its readers both a resource and a provocation. Thus, Law and the Humanities marks the maturation of this law and enterprise and will spur its further development.Introduction: on the origins and prospects of the humanistic study of law Austin Sarat, Matthew Anderson and Cathrine Frank; Part I. Perspectives on the History and Significance of Scholarship in Law and the Humanities: Three Views: 1. A humanities of resistance: fragments for a legal history of humanity Costas Douzinas; 2. Three tales of two texts: an lS‘