Literature and law

IntroductionMary Ann FRESE WITT and Eric WITT: Retrying The Stranger AgainSusan AYRES: The Silent Voices of the LawKaren C. BLANSFIELD: Law and Order: Exploring the British Legal System in David Hare’s Murmuring JudgesJenifer CUSHMAN: Criminal Apprehensions: Prague Minorities and The Habsburg Legal System in Jaroslav Hašek’s The Good Soldier Švejk and Franz Kafka’s The TrialGwen McNEILL ASHBURN: Silence in the Courtroom: Language, Literature, and Law in The Ballad of Frankie SilverDeborah HECHT: Representing Lawyers: Edith Wharton’s Portrayal of Lawyers and Lawyering In The Touchstone and SummerEric STERLING: Ritual Murder and the Corruption of Law in Bernard Malamud’s The FixerBeth WIDMAIER CAPO: “How Shall We Change the Law?”: Birth Control Rhetoric and the Modern American NarrativeJoseph SUGLIA: Putting God on Trial: The Relationship of Kafka to LeibnizBrian CONNIFF: Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Live from Death Row as Post-Legal Prison WritingAna María FRAILÉ-MARCOS: The Letter of the Law and Canadian Letters: Joy Kogawa’s ObasanAlicia RENFROE: Prior Claims and Sovereign Rights: The Sexual Contract in Edith Wharton’s SummerNancy LAWSON REMLER and Hugh LAWSON: Situating Atticus in the Zone: A Lawyer and His Daughter Read Harper Lee’s To Kill a MockingbirdGwen MATHEWSON: Challenging the Court: Charles Chesnutt’s Marrow of TraditionAbout the Authors