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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Marco WanPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.580kg ISBN: 9780415673549ISBN 10: 0415673542 Pages: 250 Publication Date: 30 April 2012 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword, Mr. Justice S. Bokhary, Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal; Introduction: Re-situating the Legal Case within the Humanities, Marco Wan; Part I Reading Cases in Interdisciplinary Studies of Law and Literature, Alan Durant; ‘I crave the law’: Salomon v Salomon (1897), uncanny personhood and the Jews, Christopher Hutton; Three Close-Ups in Search of Truth: Law, Cinema, Psychoanalysis, Maria Aristodemou; Everyday Law in the Court Writing of Sybille Bedford, Elaine Ho; Sir William Jones and the Translation of Law in India, Robert Young; The Illegality of Empire: Moral Evasion and Confusion of Historians and Literary Critics in their Reflections on The Impeachment Trial of Warren Hastings, Tony Carty; Part 2: The Making of Legal Cases and the Idea of Precedent in the Common Law, Thanos Zartaloudi ; On the Edge of Reason: Law at the Borderline, Janny Leung; ‘Stare Decisis in China? The Newly Enacted Guiding Case System’, Ping Yu and Seth Gurgel; Judging Judgment in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease, Katherine Baxter; Part 3: The Dramatic Imagination and the Dream of Law, Paul Raffield; The Intellectual – Hamlet, Kenji Yoshino; ‘Stare Decisis, Binding Precedent, and Anthony Trollope’s The Eustace Diamonds’, Marco Wan; ‘Binding Precedent: Robert Louis Steven’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’, Scott Veitch.ReviewsAuthor InformationMarco Wan is Assistant Professor of Law and Honorary Assistant Professor of English at the University of Hong Kong. He has published on literary trials in England and France, and on law and visuality in Hong Kong. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |