Description: How might law matter to the humanities? How might the humanities matter to law? In its approach to both of these questions, The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities shows how rich a resource the law is for humanistic study, as well as how and why the humanities are vital for understanding law. Tackling questions of method, key themes and concepts, and a variety of genres and areas of the law, this collection of essays by leading scholars from a variety of disciplines illuminates new questions and articulates an exciting new agenda for scholarship in law and humanities.
Review Quotes: "It is a hefty volume containing 45 well-researched chapters, evenly distributed over four parts and covering a wide range of topics... the Handbook bristles with intriguing contributions... It is as informative a 'manual' as one could hope to read." -- Jeanne Gaakeer, Modern Law Review
"This rewarding new volume offers both the casual visitor into law and humanities scholarship, as well as the dedicated scholar, fascinating opportunities to examine cutting edge research. It would be hard to come away from even a brief dip into the Handbook without becoming inspired to explore more of its many creative approaches and ideas further. Quite simply, this volume makes clear that Law and Humanities research is thriving [...] These well-established authors hail from a range of disciplines and often exhibit mastery of several disciplines simultaneously [... T]hese essays give the reader a sense of a shared sensibility--one that is open-minded and comparative, often historical, invariably careful and nuanced, and, in its most successful versions, productively synthetic, thoughtful, and creative." -- Lisa Siraganian, Johns Hopkins University, Law & Literature