The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities

How does materiality matter to legal scholarship? What can affect studies offer to legal scholars? What are the connections among visual studies, art history, and the knowledge and experience of law? What can the disciplines of book history, digital humanities, performance studies, disability studies, and post-colonial studies contribute to contemporary and historical understandings of law? These are only some of the important questions addressed in this wide-ranging collection of law and humanities scholarship.

Collecting 45 new essays by leading international scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities showcases the work of law and humanities across disciplines, addressing methods, concepts and themes, genres, and areas of the law. The essays explore under-researched domains such as comics, videos, police files, form contracts, and paratexts, and shed new light on traditional topics, such as free speech, intellectual property, international law, indigenous peoples, immigration, evidence, and human rights.

The Handbook provides an exciting new agenda for scholarship in law and humanities, and will be essential reading for anyone interested in the intersections of law and humanistic inquiry.

Part I - Methodologies
1. Materialism and Legal Historiography, From Bachelard to Benjamin
Christopher Tomlins

2. Legal Materiality
Hyo Yoon Kang and Sara Kendall

3. Law, Visual Studies, and Image History
Carolin Behrmann

4. Book History
Henrike Manuwald

5. Digital Humanities
Stephen Robertson

6. Postcolonial Studies
Renisa Mawani

7. Racial Ambiguity Blues: Contemporary Challenges for Racialization Theory in the Twenty-First Century
Camille Gear Rich

8. Disability, Law, and the Humanities: The Rise of Disability Legal Studies
Rabia Belt and Doron Dorfman

9. Psychoanalysis and Law
Tracy McNulty

10. Affect and Empathy Studies
Suzanne Keen

11. Mapping Law and Performance: Reflections on the Dilemmas of an Interdisciplinary Conjunction
Julie Stone Peters

Part II - Themes
12. Spacetime in/and Law
Mariana Valverde

13. Boundaries, Walls, Envelopes, Rooms, and Other Spatialities of Law
Timothy Hyde

14. The Sociality of the Platform
Annelise Riles

15. Personhood
John Frow

16. Trauma, Memory, and the Law
Norman W. Spaulding

17. Challenging the Legal Self through Performance
Marett Leiboff

18. Accident
Daniel Williams

19. Facing Justice: Evidence, Legibility and Pensiveness in the Early Modern Imagination
Subha Mukherji

20. The Gap between Fairness and Law: Hamlet and Equity from a Cognitive Perspective
Ellen Spolsky

21. From Eternity to Here: Divine Accommodation and the Lost Language of Law
Nomi M. Stolzenberg

22. Machiavelli's Camillus and the Tension between Leadership and Democracy
John P. McCormick

23. Agonism, Democracy, and Law
Panu Minkkinen

24. An Anti-Liberal Defense of Free Speech: Foundations of Democracy in the Western Philosophical Canon
Eric Heinze

Part III - Areas of Law
25. Family Law
Khiara M. Bridges

26. Human Rights
Elizabeth S. Anker

27. Immigration and the Imperial
Sherally Munshi

28. Indigenous Law
Gregory Ablavsky, Sarah Deer, and Justin Richland

29. Property: Changing Formations of Having and Being
Sarah Keenan

30. Intellectual Property's Queer Turn
Andrew Gilden

31. History, Literature, and Authority in International Law
Christopher N. Warren

32. Uncovering Credibility
Julia Simon-Kerr

33. Laws of Sex, Changed
Noa Ben-Asher

34. The Functions of Legal Literature and Case Reporting before and after Stare Decisis
Andrew Benjamin Bricker

Part IV - Legal Genres
35. Trials and the Impressionism of Advocacy
Rex Ferguson

36. Maxims
Donald R. Davis, Jr.

37. Responsa
Ari Z. Bryen

38. Legal Treatise
Steven Wilf

39. Legal Codes as Cultural Products
Heikki Pihlajamäki

40. Form Contract
Tal Kastner

41. Legal Paratexts
Robert Spoo

42. Emblems
Valérie Hayaert

43. Video as Text/Archive
Bennett Capers

44. Police Records: An Intermedia Genre
Cristina Vatulescu

45. Comics
Hillary Chute

Index