Legal theory and the humanities / edited by Maksymilian Del Mar, Peter Goodrich.

Includes bibliographical references (pages vii-viii) and index.

Part I. Imagination, emotion and the particular -- Empathy, legal storytelling, and the rule of law : new words, old wounds? / Toni M. Massaro -- Poets as judges : judicial rhetoric and the literary imagination / Martha C. Nussbaum -- The echo of a sentimental jurisprudence / Ian Ward -- Part II. Voice, perspective and community -- The judicial opinion and the poem : ways of reading, ways of life / James Boyd White -- Law as rhetoric, rhetoric as law : the arts of cultural and communal life / James Boyd White -- The judicial opinion as literary genre / Robert A. Ferguson -- Narrative transactions : does the law need a narratology? / Peter Brooks -- Ghosts of law and humanities (past, present, future) / Marett Leiboff -- Part III. Image, vision and pattern -- The aesthetics of American law / Pierre Schlag -- Tele-tribunals : anatomy of a medium / Cornelia Vismann.

PreCrime never pays! :'law and economics' / William P. MacNeil -- Visiocracy : on the futures of the fingerpost / Peter Goodrich -- Part IV. Space, Music and performance -- Law, music, and other performing arts / Sanford Levinson and J.M. Balkin -- Theatre of deferral : the image of the law and the architecture of the Inns of Court / David Evans -- Prelude : senses and symbols in aesthetic experience / Desmond Manderson -- Legal performance good and bad / Julie Stone Peters -- Screening law / Peter Goodrich.