Law, mystery, and the humanities : collected essays / edited by Logan Atkinson and Diana Majury.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Atkinson, Logan, 1954-

Majury, Diana, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law.

Humanities.

Law and literature.

Sociological jurisprudence.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

viii, 370 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2008]

Contents:

Points of convergence: law, mystery, and the humanities / Diana Majury, Logan Atkinson

Murder and mayhem in legal method: or, the strange case of Sherlock Holmes v. Sam Spade / Neil C. Sargent

Analytic philosophy and the interpretation of constitutional rights / Sophia Moreau

Nature: from philosophy of science to legal theory ... and back? / Alain Papaux

Language and law as objects of scientific study / Rémi Samson

I beg to differ: interdisciplinary questions about law, language, and dissent / Marie-Claire Belleau, Rebecca Johnson

Imagining sedition: law and the emerging public sphere in Upper Canada, c. 1798-1828 / Barry Wright

Human rights poetry as ethical tribunal: bodies and bystanders in Margaret Atwood's 'Footnote to the Amnesty report on torture' / Brenda Carr Vellino

Who do we blame for blame? Moving beyond the fiction of blame in The sweet hereafter / Diana Majury

'Our woe ... Our great distress': law, literature, and suffering during the Great Plague of London, 1665 / Logan Atkinson

The strange gospel and a common law: the reconciling word to a fragmented world / M.H. Ogilvie

The re-enchantment of the world? Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, and human rights / Clinton Timothy Curle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780802090010

080209001X

OCLC:

181602795