Title Reading the legal case : cross currents between law and the humanities / edited by Marco Wan

Publisher New York : Routledge, 2012

Table of Contents
	Acknowledgements					vii
	Contributors					viii
	Foreword / Mr. Justice Bokhary					x
	Introduction / Marco Wan					1
pt. I	Rereading the legal case					9
1.	Reading cases in interdisciplinary studies of law and literature / Alan Durant					11
2.	`I crave the law': Salomon v Salomon, uncanny personhood and the Jews / Christopher Hutton					29
3.	Three close-ups in search of truth: law, cinema, psychoanalysis / Maria Aristodemou					47
4.	Everyday law in the court writing of Sybille Bedford / Elaine Ho					61
5.	Sir William Jones and the translation of law in India / Robert Young					80
6.	The illegality of Empire: moral evasion and confusion of historians and literary critics in their reflections on the impeachment trial of Warren Hastings / Anthony Carty					90
pt. II	Perspectives on precedent					107
7.	The making of legal cases and the idea of precedent in the common law / Thanos Zartaloudis					109
8.	On the edge of reason: law at the borderline / Janny Leung					128
9.	Stare decisis in China? The newly enacted Guiding Case System / Seth Gurgel					142
10.	Judging judgment in Chinua Achebe's No Longer at Ease / Katherine Isobel Baxter					159
pt. III	Reading literature in a legal frame					173
11.	The dramatic imagination and the dream of law / Paul Raffield					175
12.	The intellectual - Hamlet / Kenji Yoshino					190
13.	Stare decisis, binding precedent, and Anthony Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds / Marco Wan					205
14.	Binding precedent: Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Scott Veitch					217
	Index					231