This book explores the many approaches available to the study of law and literature.

• An exploration of the many relationships between law and literature.
  
• Looks at what law and literature can learn from one another.
  
• Makes those involved in literary studies more conscious of the impact that law has had on literary history.
  
• Treats subjects as diverse as Socrates and Marx.
  
• Contributors are significant scholars from the fields of legal theory and critical theory.