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Bibliography of Legal Rhetoric
This list contains a variety of materials potentially of interest to those studying legal rhetoric.
The list is divided into the following categories: (1) books, (2) articles and book chapters,
(3) biography, memoir, and primary sources, (4) the law in fiction, and (5) the law in film.
Because the list is periodically updated and supplemented, a time stamp is included in the
upper right-hand corner for ease of reference.
Books
Giorgio Agamben. The Sacrament of Language: An Archaeology of the Oath. Trans. Adam Kotsko.
Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2010.
Ruggero J. Aldisert. Opinion Writing. Minneapolis: West Publishing, 1990.
John A. Alford and Dennis Paul Seniff. Literature and Law in the Middle Ages: A Bibliography of
Scholarship. New York: Garland, 1984.
Anthony G. Amsterdam and Jerome Bruner. Minding the Law. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2000.
J. Maxwell Atkinson and Paul Drew. Order in Court: The Organization of Verbal Interaction in
Judicial Settings. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1979.
Logan Atkinson and Diana Majury, eds. Law, Mystery, and the Humanities: Collected Essays.
Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2008.
J.L. Austin. How to Do Things with Words. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1962.
Milner Ball. Lying Down Together: Law, Metaphor, and Theology. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin
Press, 1985.
———. The Word and the Law. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1993.
John F. Bannan and Rosemary S. Bannan. Law, Morality and Vietnam: The Peace Militants and the
Courts. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1974.
Susanna Barber. News Cameras in the Courtroom. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1986.
Frederic C. Bartlett. Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology. Cambridge:
Cambridge Univ. Press, 1932.
Lawrence Baum. Judges and Their Audiences: A Perspective on Judicial Behavior. Princeton:
Princeton Univ. Press, 2006.
Theodore Becker, ed. Political Trials. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971.
Michal R. Belknap, ed. American Political Trials. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1981.
W. Lance Bennett and Martha S. Feldman. Reconstructing Reality in the Courtroom: Justice and
Judgment in American Culture. 1981. Reprint, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press,
1984.
Paul Bergman and Michael Asimow. Reel Justice: The Courtroom Goes to the Movies. Revised
ed. Kansas City, MO: Andrew McMeels, 2006.
Stephen M. Best. The Fugitive’s Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession. Chicago: Univ. of
Chicago Press, 2004.
David A. Binder and Paul Bergman. Fact Investigation: From Hypothesis to Proof. St. Paul, Minn.:
West, 1984.
Guyora Binder and Robert Weisburg. Literary Criticisms of Law. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 2000.
Anita Biressi. Crime, Fear and the Law in True Crime Stories. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
David A. Black. Law in Film: Resonance and Representation. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1999.
R. Howard Bloch. Medieval French Literature and Law. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1977.
Haig Bosmajian. Metaphor and Reason in Judicial Opinions. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ.
Press, 1992.
Jon L. Breen. Novel Verdicts: A Guide to Courtroom Fiction. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1984.
Charles Briggs, ed. Disorderly Discourse: Narrative, Conflict, and Inequality. London: Oxford Univ.
Press, 1996.
Peter Brooks. Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature. Chicago: Univ. of
Chicago Press, 2001.
Peter Brooks and Paul Gewirtz, eds. Law’s Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law. New Haven,
CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1998.
Irving Browne. Law and Lawyers in Literature. Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1883.
Jerome Bruner. Making Stories: Law, Literature, Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
William Burgwinkle. Sodomy, Masculinity, and Law in Medieval Literature: France and England,
1050-1230. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004.
Kenneth Burke. A Rhetoric of Motives. Calif. ed., 1950. Reprint, Berkeley: Univ. of California
Press, 1969.
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Jonathan Burnside. God, Justice, and Society: Aspects of Law and Legality in the Bible. New York:
Oxford Univ. Press, 2010.
Frank Burton and Pat Carlen. Official Discourse: Discourse Analysis, Government Publications,
Ideology and the State. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979.
Piero Calamandrei. Procedure and Democracy. Trans. John C. Adams and Helen Adams. New
York: New York Univ. Press, 1956.
Elias Canetti. Crowds and Power. New York: Viking, 1962.
David Carr. Time, Narrative, and History. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1986.
Dan T. Carter. Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South. Revised ed. Baton Rouge: Louisiana
State Univ. Press, 1979.
Ernst Cassirer. The Myth of the State. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1946.
David Caute. The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower (New
York: Simon and Schuster, 1978.
Zechariah Chaffee, Jr. Free Speech in the United States. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1967.
Susan Chaplin. The Gothic and the Rule of Law, 1764-1820. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Ron Christenson. Political Trials: Gordian Knots in the Law. 2nd ed. New Brunswick, N.J.:
Transaction, 1999.
M.T. Clanchy. From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell,
1979.
Justin Clemens, Nicholas Heron, and Alex Murray, eds. The Work of Giorgio Agambem: Law,
Literature, Life. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2008.
Kendall Coffey. Spinning the Law: Trying Cases in the Court of Public Opinion. Amherst, NY:
Prometheus Books, 2010.
L. Jonathan Cohen. The Probable and the Provable. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1977.
John L. Comaroff and Simon Roberts. Rules and Processes: The Cultural Logic of Dispute in an
African Context. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1981.
John M. Conley and William M. O’Barr. Just Words: Law, Language, and Power. Chicago: Univ. of
Chicago Press, 1998.
———. Rules Versus Relationships: The Ethnography of Legal Discourse. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago
Press, 1990.
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Bradin Cormack. A Power to Do Justice: Jurisdiction, English Literature, and the Rise of Common
Law, 1509-1625. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2007.
Deniz Coskun. Law as Symbolic Form: Ernst Cassirer and the Anthropocentric View of Law.
Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2007.
Robert Cover. Narrative, Violence, and the Law: The Essays of Robert Cover. Eds. Martha Minow,
Michael Ryan, and Austin Sarat. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1993.
Gregg D. Crane. Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.
Press, 2002.
J.A. Crook. Legal Advocacy in the Roman World. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 1995.
Frank B. Cross. Decision Making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press,
2007.
Kevin M. Crotty. Law’s Interior: Legal and Literary Constructions of the Self. Ithaca, NY: Cornell
Univ. Press, 2001.
Thomas M. Curley. Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature and Empire in the Age of Johnson. Madison:
Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1998.
Richard Curtis. The Berrigan Brothers: The Story of Daniel and Philip Berrigan. New York:
Hawthorne, 1974.
James McBride Dabbs. Civil Rights in Recent Southern Fiction. Atlanta: Southern Regional
Council, 1969.
Robert Darnton. Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris.
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2010.
Natalie Zemon Davis. Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century
France. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 1987.
William A. Davis. Thomas Hardy and the Law: Legal Presences in Hardy’s Life and Fiction. Newark,
DE: Univ. of Delaware Press, 2003.
Joan Dayan. The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons. Princeton:
Princeton Univ. Press, 2011.
Jeannine Marie DeLombard. Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture. Chapel Hill:
Univ. of North Carolina, 2007.
John Denvir. Legal Reelism: Movies as Legal Texts. Champaign: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1996.
Jacques Derrida. Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1998.
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Kieran Dolin. A Critical Introduction to Law and Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press,
2007.
———. Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and Modernist Literature. Cambridge:
Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999.
Lawrence Douglas. The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust.
New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 2005.
Costas Douzinas and Lynds Nead, eds. Law and the Image: The Authority of Art and the Aesthetics
of Law. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1999.
Kathy Eden. Poetic and Legal Fictions in the Aristotelean Tradition. Princeton: Princeton Univ.
Press, 1986.
Jenny Edkins. Trauma and the Memory of Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003.
Zillah R. Eisenstein. The Female Body and the Law. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1988.
Richard Leo Enos. The Literate Mode of Cicero’s Legal Rhetoric. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ.
Press, 1988.
Jason Epstein. The Great Conspiracy Trial: An Essay on Law, Liberty and the Constitution. New York:
Random House, 1970.
Marguerite Feitlowitz. A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture. New York:
Oxford Univ. Press, 1999.
Shoshana Felman. The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century.
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2002.
Robert A. Ferguson. Law and Letters in American Culture. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1984.
Jessica D. Findley and Bruce D. Sales. The Science of Attorney Advocacy: How Courtroom Behavior
Affects Jury Decisionmaking. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2012.
Martha Albertson Fineman. The Illusion of Equality: The Rhetoric and Reality of Divorce Reform.
Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1991.
Margo Finn, Michael Lobban, and Jenny Bourne Taylor, eds. Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in
Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature, and History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Stanley Fish. Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary
and Legal Studies. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 1989.
Peter Fitzpatrick. The Mythology of Modern Law. New York: Routledge, 1992.
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Robert J. Fogelin. Evidence and Meaning. London: Routledge, 1967.
Robert F. Forston. Legal Communication: A Bibliography. American Forensic Association, 1975.
Michel Foucault. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York:
Vintage, 1979.
Cathrine O. Frank. Law, Literature, and the Transmission of Culture in England, 18371925. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010.
Jerome Frank. Courts on Trial: Myth and Reality in American Justice. Princeton: Princeton Univ.
Press, 1949.
———. Law and the Modern Mind. New York: Brentano’s, 1930.
Michael Freeman and Andrew Lewis, eds. Law and Literature. New York: Oxford Univ. Press,
1999.
Andrea Frisch. The Invention of the Eyewitness: Witnessing and Testimony in Early Modern France.
Chapel Hill: The Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Michael H. Frost. Introduction to Classical Legal Rhetoric: A Lost Heritage. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate,
2005.
Lon L. Fuller. The Morality of Law. 1964. Revised ed. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1969.
Frederic G. Gale. Political Literacy: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Possibility of Justice. Albany: State
Univ. of New York Press, 1994.
Bryan Garsten. Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment. Cambridge: Harvard Univ.
Press, 2006.
Richard Gaskins. Burdens of Proof in Modern Discourse. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1992.
Elizabeth Villiers Gemmette, ed. Law in Literature: Legal Themes in Drama. Troy, NY: Whitston
Publ., 1995.
———, ed. Law in Literature: Legal Themes in Novellas. Troy, NY: Whitston Publ., 1996.
———, ed. Law in Literature: Legal Themes in Short Stories. Troy, NY: Whitston Publ., 1995.
John Marshall Gest. The Lawyer in Literature. Boston: Boston Book Company, 1913.
Hal Gladfelder. Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England: Beyond the Law.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2001.
Susan Glover. Engendering Legitimacy: Law, Property, and Early Eighteenth-Century Fiction.
Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell Univ. Press, 2006.
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Max Gluckman. Custom and Conflict in Africa. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1973.
Roberto González Echevarría. Love and the Law in Cervantes. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press,
2005.
Nan Goodman. Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in
Nineteenth Century America. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Peter Goodrich. Languages of Law: From Logics of Memory to Nomadic Masks. Littleton, CO: F.B.
Rothman, 1990.
———. Law in the Courts of Love: Literature and Other Minor Jurisprudences. New York: Routledge,
1996.
———. Legal Discourse: Studies in Linguistics, Rhetoric and Legal Analysis. New York: St. Martin’s
Press, 1987.
———. Reading the Law: A Critical Introduction to Legal Method and Techniques. Oxford: Blackwell,
1986.
Kathryn Gravdal. Ravishing Maidens: Writing Rape in Medieval French Literature and Law.
Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
Adwin Wigfall Green. The Inns of Court and Early English Drama. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ.
Press, 1931.
Richard Firth Green. Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England. Philadelphia: Univ.
of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
Thomas Grey. The Wallace Stevens Case: Law and the Practice of Poetry. Cambridge: Harvard Univ.
Press, 1991.
Jonathan H. Grossman. The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins Univ. Press, 2002.
Ross Guberman. Point Made: How to Write Like the Nation’s Top Advocates. New York: Oxford,
2011.
David Gurnham. Memory, Imagination, Justice; Intersections of Law and Literature. Burlington, VT:
Ashgate, 2009.
Jürgen Habermas. Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and
Democracy. Trans. William Rehg. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996.
Chaya T. Halberstam. Law and Truth in Biblical and Rabbinic Literature. Bloomington: Indiana
Univ. Press, 2010.
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Igal Halfin. Intimate Enemies: Demonizing the Bolshevik Opposition, 1918-1928. Pittsburgh: Univ. of
Pittsburgh Press, 2007.
Patrick Hanafin, Adam Gearey, and Joseph Brooker, eds. Law and Literature. Malden, MA:
Blackwell, 2004.
Barbara Hanawalt and Anna A. Grotans, eds. Living Dangerously: On the Margins in Medieval and
Early Modern Europe. Notre Dame, IN: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2007.
Robert Hariman, ed. Popular Trials: Rhetoric, Mass Media, and the Law. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of
Alabama Press, 1990.
A.G. Harmon. Eternal Bonds, True Contracts: Law and Nature in Shakespeare’s Problem
Plays. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 2004.
Thomas J. Harris. Courtroom’s Finest Hour in America Cinema. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press,
1987.
Marouf Hasian, Jr. Legal Memories and Amnesias in America’s Rhetorical Culture. Boulder, CO:
Westview Press, 2000.
Reid Hastie, Steven Penrod, and Nancy Pennington. Inside the Jury. Cambridge: Harvard Univ.
Press, 1983.
William M. Hawley. Shakespearean Tragedy and the Common Law. New York: Peter Lang, 1998.
Paul J. Heald, ed. Literature and Legal Problem Solving: Law and Literature as Ethical Discourse.
Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1998.
Robert E. Hegel and Katherine Carlitz, eds. Writing and Law in Late Imperial China:
Crime, Conflict, and Judgment. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 2007.
Susan Sage Heinzelman. Representing Women: Law, Literature, and Feminism. Durham, NC: Duke
Univ. Press, 1994.
———. Riding the Black Ram: Law, Literature, and Gender. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press,
2010.
Allan Hepburn, ed. Troubled Legacies: Narrative and Inheritance. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press,
2007.
Gershon Hepner. Legal Friction: Law, Identity, and Narrative Politics in Biblical Israel. New York:
Peter Lang, 2010.
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Hofmann. Figures of Law:
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Patrick Colm Hogan. On Interpretation: Meaning and Inference in Law, Psychoanalysis
and Literature. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2008.
William S. Holdsworth. Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press,
1928.
Alan Hunt and Gary Wickham. Foucault and Law: Towards a Sociology of Law as Governance.
Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 1994.
Lorna Hutson. The Invention of Suspicion: Law and Mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama.
Oxford, UK: Oxford Univ. Press, 2007.
Chris Hutton. Language, Meaning, and the Law. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2009.
Bernard S. Jackson. Law, Fact, and Narrative Coherence. 1988. Reprint, Liverpool, UK: Deborah
Charles, 1991.
Timothy S. Jones. Outlawry in Medieval Literature. New York: Palgrage Macmillan, 2010.
Albert R. Jonsen and Stephen Toulmin. The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning.
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1988.
Constance Jordan and Karen Cunningham, eds. The Law in Shakespeare. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2007.
Paul Kahn. Law and Love: The Trials of King Lear. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 2000.
Victoria Kahn and Lorna Hutson, eds. Rhetoric and Law in Early Modern Europe. New Haven, CT:
Yale Univ. Press, 2001.
Daniel Kahnemann, Paul Slovic, and Amos Tversky, eds. Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics
and Biases. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1982.
George W. Keeton. Shakespeare’s Legal and Political Background. London: Pitman, 1967.
Donald Kelley. Foundations of Modern Historical Scholarship: Language, Law, and History in the
French Renaissance. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1970.
George Kennedy. Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern
Times. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1980.
George Kennedy, ed. and trans. Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric.
Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.
Valerie Kerruish. Jurisprudence as Ideology. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Dennis Kezar, ed. Solon and Thespis: Law and Theater in the English Renaissance. Notre Dame, IN:
Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2007.
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Lovalerie King. Race, Theft, and Ethics: Property Matters in African American Literature. Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 2007.
Lovalerie King and Richard Schur, eds. African American Culture and Legal Discourse. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Walter Kintsch. The Representation of Meaning in Memory. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1974.
Daniel J. Kornstein. Kill All the Lawyers? Shakespeare’s Legal Appeal. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
Univ. Press, 1994.
David Farrell Krell. Of Memory, Reminiscence, and Writing: On the Verge. Bloomington: Indiana
Univ. Press, 1990.
Joel Kuipers. Power in Performance: The Creation of Textual Authority in Weyewa Ritual Speech.
Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.
John H. Langbein. The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003.
Wendy Larcombe. Compelling Engagements: Feminism, Rape Law and Romance Fiction. Annandale,
Austral.: Federation Press, 2005.
Lewis H. LaRue. Constitutional Law as Fiction: Narrative in the Rhetoric of Authority. University
Park: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 1995.
John Laughland. A History of Political Trials: From Charles I to Saddam Hussein. Oxford: Peter
Lang, 2008.
Henry Charles Lea. Superstition and Force: Essays on The Wager of Law—The Wager of Battle—The
Ordeal—Torture. Amsterdam: Fredonia Books, 2003.
Lenora Ledwon, ed. Law and Literature: Text and Theory. New York: Garland, 1996.
Alexandre Lefebvre. The Image of Law: Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press,
2008.
Pierre Legendre. Law and the Unconscious: A Legendre Reader. Edited and translated by Peter
Goodrich. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
Rebecca Lemon. Treason by Words: Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare’s England. Ithaca,
NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 2006.
Judith N. Levi. Language and Law: A Bibliographic Guide to Social Sciences Research in the U.S.A.
Chicago: American Bar Association, 1994.
Judith N. Levi and Anne G. Walker, eds. Language in the Judicial Process. New York: Plenum
Press, 1990.
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Sanford Levinson. Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies. Durham, NC: Duke
Univ. Press, 1998.
Sanford Levinson and Steven Mailloux, eds. Interpreting Law and Literature: A Hermeneutic
Reader. Evanston, IL: Northwestern Univ. Press, 1988.
Deborah E. Lipstadt. The Eichmann Trial. New York: Schocken, 2011.
Lee A. Litscher. The Semiotics of Rape in Renaissance English Literature. New York: Peter Lang,
2007.
Brian C. Lockey. Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.
Press, 2006.
Ephraim London, ed. The World of Law. Vol. I, The Law in Literature, and Vol. II, The Law as
Literature. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1960.
Jean-François Lyotard. The Differend: Phrases in Dispute. Trans. Georges Van Den Abbeele.
Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1988.
Neil MacCormick. Rhetoric and the Rule of Law: A Theory of Legal Reasoning. New York: Oxford
Univ. Press 2005.
Colin M. MacLachlan. Anarchism and the Mexican Revolution: The Political Trials of Ricardo Flores
Magón in the United States. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1991.
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Slettedahl Macpherson. Courting Failure: Women and
Century Literature. Akron, OH: Univ. of Akron Press, 2007.
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Andrew J. Majeske. Equity in Renaissance Literature: Thomas More and Edmund Spenser. New York:
Routledge, 2006.
Andrew Mangham. Violent Women and Sensation Fiction: Crime, Medicine, and Victorian Popular
Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Sharon Marcus. Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England. Princeton,
NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2007.
Basil Markesinis. Good and Evil in Art and Law. New York: Springer, 2007.
Bridget M. Marshall. The Transatlantic Gothic Novel and the Law, 1790-1860. Burlington, VT:
Ashgate, 2011.
Joseph H. Marshburn. Murder and Witchcraft in England, 1550-1640: As Recounted in Pamphlets,
Ballads, Broadsides, and Plays. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1971.
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Joseph H. Marshburn and Alan R. Velie, eds. Blood and Knavery: A Collection of English
Renaissance Pamphlets and Ballads of Crime and Sin. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson
Univ. Press, 1973.
Charles H. Martin. The Angelo Herndon Case and Southern Justice. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
Univ. Press, 1976.
Gregory M. Matoesian. Reproducing Rape: Domination Through Talk in the Courtroom. Chicago:
Univ. of Chicago Press, 1993.
Conor McCarthy. Marriage in Medieval England: Law, Literature, and Practice. Rochester, NY:
Boydell, Press, 2004.
Daniel M. McKeithan. Court Trials in Mark Twain and Other Essays. New York: Nijhoff, 1958.
Martin J. Medhurst, ed. Before the Rhetorical Presidency. College Station: Texas A&M Univ. Press,
2008.
David Mellinkoff. The Language of the Law. Eugene, OR: Resource Publications, 1963.
Michael J. Meyer, ed. Literature and Law. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004.
Edward F. Mickolus. The Literature of Terrorism: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography. Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 1980.
Martha Minow. Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass
Violence. Boston: Beacon, 1999.
Jessica Mitford. The Trial of Dr. Spock. New York: Knopf, 1969.
Francis J. Mootz III. Law, Hermeneutics and Rhetoric. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2010.
———. Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Critical Legal Theory. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of
Alabama Press, 2006.
Thomas Morawetz. Literature and the Law. New York: Aspen, 2007.
Alan E. Morrill. Trial Diplomacy. Chicago: Court Practice Institute, 1976.
Jacob Neusner. Law as Literature. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2007.
Norval Morris. The Brothel Boy and Other Parables of the Law. New York: Oxford Univ. Press,
1992.
Deak Nabers. Victory of Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil War, and American Literature,
1852-1867. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2006.
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Laura Nader. Harmony Ideology and the Construction of the Law: Justice and Control in a Zapotec
Mountain Village. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 1990.
Martha Nussbaum. Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life. Boston: Beacon Press,
1995.
William M. O’Barr. Linguistic Evidence: Language, Power and Strategy in the Courtroom. New York:
Academic Press, 1982.
James Olney. Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press,
1998.
William O’Rourke. The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell,
1973.
Albert Sherman Osborne. The Problem of Proof. New York: Matthew Bender, 1922.
David R. Papke, ed. Narrative and the Legal Discourse. Liverloop: Deborah Charles, 1991.
Chaim Perelman. The Idea of Justice and the Problem of Argument. Trans. J. Petrie. London:
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963.
———. Justice, Law, and Argument: Essays in Moral and Legal Reasoning. Various trans. Dordrecht,
Holland: D. Reidel Publishing, 1980.
Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca. The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation.
Trans. John Wilkinson and Purcell Weaver. Notre Dame: Univ. of Notre Dame Press,
1969.
Horace C. Peterson and Gilbert C. Fite. Opponents of War 1917-1918. Seattle: Univ. of
Washington Press, 1968.
James Phelan. Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics, Ideology. Columbus: Ohio State
Univ. Press, 1996.
O. Hood Phillips. Shakespeare and the Lawyers. London: Methuen, 1972.
Richard A. Posner. Law and Literature. Revised ed. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1998.
Michael L. Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam. In Spite of Innocence:
Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases. Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1992.
Paul Raffield. Shakespeare’s Imaginary Constitution: Late Elizabethan Politics and the Theatre of Law.
Portland, OR: Hart, 2010.
Paul Raffield and Gary Watt, eds. Shakespeare and the Law. Portland, OR: Hart, 2008.
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Edward D. Re. Appellate Opinion Writing. Washington, DC: Federal Judicial Center, 1977.
Steve Redhead. Unpopular Cultures: The Birth of Law and Popular Culture. Manchester, UK:
Manchester Univ. Press, 1995.
Thomas Lloyd Reed, Jr. Middle English Debate Poetry and the Aesthetics of Irresolution. Columbia:
University of Missouri Press, 1990.
Ravit Reichman. The Affective Life of Law: Legal Modernism and the Literary Imagination. Stanford,
CA: Stanford University Press, 2009.
Walter Bates Rideout. The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954: Some Interrelations of
Literature and Society. New York: Hill and Wang, 1956.
Richard Rieke and Randall Sutman. Communication in Legal Advocacy. Columbia: Univ. of South
Carolina Press, 1990.
Gilles Renaud. Les Misérables on Sentencing: Valjean, Fantine, Javert and the Bishop Debate the
Principles. Melbourne, Austral.: Sandstone Academic Press, 2007.
William C. Robinson. Forensic Oratory: A Manual for Advocates. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.
Bruce L. Rockwood, ed. Law and Literature Perspectives. New York: Grove, 1996.
Lisa Rodensky. The Crime in Mind: Criminal Responsibility and the Victorian Novel. New York:
Oxford Univ. Press, 2003.
Amy D. Ronner. Law, Literature, and Therapeutic Jurisprudence. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic
Press, 2010.
Gary Rosenshield. Western Law, Russian Justice: Dostoevsky, The Jury, and the Law. Madison: Univ.
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Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense (1941)
Kate Summerscale, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great
Victorian Detective (2008)
Evan Thomas, The Man to See (1992)
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, with Erin Torneo, Picking Cotton: Our Memoir
of Injustice and Redemption (2009)
Scott Turow, One L (1977)
———, Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty (2003)
Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (1901)
Randy Weaver, Sara Weaver, and Bill Henry. The Federal Siege at Ruby Ridge: In Our Own Words.
Marion, MT: Ruby Ridge, 1998.
Curtis Wilkie, The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America’s Most Powerful Trial
Lawyer (2010)
Patricia Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights: A Diary of a Law Professor (1992)
George Witton, Scapegoats of the Empire: The True Story of the Bushveldt Carbineers (2009)
Andy Worthington, The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 759 Detainees in America's Illegal
Prison (2007)
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The Law in Fiction
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, “In a Grove” (1922)
———, “Rashomon” (1915)
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Stillwater Tragedy (1880)
Sholom Aleichem, “Dreyfus in Kasrilevke” (1902)
Isaac Asimov, “The Bicentennial Man” (1976)
———, The Caves of Steel (1953)
Jeffrey Ashford, The Burden of Proof (1962)
Louis Auchincloss, The Great World and Timothy Colt (1956)
———, I Come as a Thief (1972)
———, A Law for the Lion (1953)
———, “The Legends of Henry Everett” (1952)
———, The Partners (1974)
———, Powers of Attorney (1962)
Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818)
John Barth, The Floating Opera (1957)
Donald Barthelme, “Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby” (1976)
Hamilton Basso, The View from Pompey’s Head (1954)
Stephen Becker, A Covenant With Death (1964)
Arthur Beer, The Sweet Trials: Malice Afterthought (1987)
Paul Bellow, Herzog (1964)
Robert Benchley, “Take the Witness!” (1935)
Stephen Vincent Benét, “The Devil and Daniel Webster” (1937)
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Gina Berriault, “The Stone Boy” (1957)
Daniel Berrigan, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1971)
Robert Bolt, A Man for all Seasons (1960)
Bernard Botein, The Prosecutor: A Novel (1956)
Pierre Boulle, The Executioner (1954)
———, Planet of the Apes (1963)
———, Saving Face (1956)
Robert O’Neil Bristow, “Beyond Any Doubt” (1962)
William Wells Brown, Clotel, or, The President’s Daughter: a Narrative of Slave Life in the United
States (1853)
Carlos Bulosan, “My Father Goes to Court” (1943)
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962)
A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance (1990)
Albert Camus, The Fall (1957)
———, The Rebel (1954)
———, The Stranger (1942)
Karel Capek, “The Clairvoyant” (1932)
Truman Capote, “My Side of the Matter” (1945)
Caleb Carr, The Angel of Darkness (1997)
Willa Cather, “Paul’s Case” (1905)
Henry Cecil, According to the Evidence (1954)
———, Alibi for a Judge (1960)
———, Brothers in Law (1955)
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———, Daughters in Law (1961)
———, Friends at Court (1956)
———, Full Circle (1948)
———, Independent Witness (1963)
———, Much in Evidence (1957)
———, Natural Causes (1953)
———, No Bail for the Judge (1952)
———, Settled Out of Court (1959)
———, Ways and Means (1952)
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (1400)
John Cheever, Falconer (1977)
Anton Chekhov, “In the Court” (1886)
Agatha Christie, “Traitor Hands” (1925)
———, Witness for the Prosecution (1953)
Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Ox-Bow Incident (1940)
J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
Julia C. Collins, The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride (1865)
Wilkie Collins, The Law and the Lady (1875)
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1902)
Richard Harding David, “A Wasted Day” (1910)
Borden Deal, The Advocate (1967)
Henry Denker, A Case of Libel (1964)
Al Dewlen, Twilight of Honor (1961)
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Phillip K. Dick, “The Minority Report” (1956)
Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1853)
———, Great Expectations (1861)
Giuseppe di Lampedusa, “Joy and the Law” (1962)
Ariel Dorfman, Death and the Maiden (1990)
———, Widows (1983)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
———, Crime and Punishment (1866)
———, The House of the Dead (1862)
———, The Idiot (1869)
Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy (1925)
Allen Drury, Advise and Consent (1959)
———, Capable of Honor (1966)
———, Preserve and Protect (1968)
———, A Shade of Difference (1962)
Andre Dubus, “The Intruder” (1963)
Paul Laurence Dunbar, “The Lynching of Jube Benson” (1904)
Harlan Ellison, “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs” (1973)
William Faulkner, “Barn Burning” (1939)
———, Sanctuary (1931)
———, “Tomorrow” (1949)
Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749)
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1856)
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Mary Hallock Foote, John Bodewin’s Testimony (1886)
Soames Forsyte, The Man of Property (1906)
Ernest Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying (1993)
Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Amorous Aunt (1963)
———, The Case of the Angry Mourner (1951)
———, The Case of the Baited Hook (1940)
———, The Case of the Beautiful Beggar (1965)
———, The Case of the Bigamous Spouse (1961)
———, The Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde (1944)
———, The Case of the Blonde Bonanza (1962)
———, The Case of the Borrowed Brunette (1946)
———, The Case of the Buried Clock (1943)
———, The Case of the Calendar Girl (1958)
———, The Case of the Careless Cupid (1968)
———, The Case of the Careless Kitten (1942)
———, The Case of the Caretaker's Cat (1935)
———, The Case of the Cautious Coquette (1949)
———, The Case of the Crooked Candle (1944)
———, The Case of the Counterfeit Eye (1935)
———, The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)
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———, The Case of the Dangerous Dowager (1937)
———, The Case of the Daring Decoy (1957)
———, The Case of the Daring Divorcee (1964)
———, The Case of the Deadly Toy (1959)
———, The Case of the Demure Defendant (1956)
———, The Case of the Drowning Duck (1942)
———, The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito (1943)
———, The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom (1949)
———, The Case of the Duplicate Daughter (1960)
———, The Case of the Empty Tin (1941)
———, The Case of the Fabulous Fake (1969)
———, The Case of the Fan Dancer's Horse (1947)
———, The Case of the Fenced-In Woman (1972)
———, The Case of the Fiery Fingers (1951)
———, The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll (1958)
———, The Case of the Fugitive Nurse (1954)
———, The Case of the Gilded Lily (1956)
———, The Case of the Glamorous Ghost (1955)
———, The Case of the Golddigger's Purse (1945)
———, The Case of the Green-Eyed Sister (1953)
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———, The Case of the Grinning Gorilla (1952)
———, The Case of the Half-Wakened Wife (1945)
———, The Case of the Haunted Husband (1941)
———, The Case of the Hesitant Hostess (1953)
———, The Case of the Horrified Heirs (1964)
———, The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
———, The Case of the Ice-Cold Hands (1962)
———, The Case of the Lame Canary (1937)
———, The Case of the Lazy Lover (1947)
———, The Case of the Lonely Heiress (1948)
———, The Case of the Long-legged Models (1958)
———, The Case of the Lucky Legs (1934)
———, The Case of the Lucky Loser (1957)
———, The Case of the Mischievous Doll (1963)
———, The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink (1952)
———, The Case of the Mythical Monkeys (1959)
———, The Case of the Negligent Nymph (1950)
———, The Case of the Nervous Accomplice (1955)
———, The Case of the One-Eyed Witness (1950)
———, The Case of the Perjured Parrot (1939)
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———, The Case of the Phantom Fortune (1964)
———, The Case of the Postponed Murder (1973)
———, The Case of the Queenly Contestant (1967)
———, The Case of the Reluctant Model (1962)
———, The Case of the Restless Redhead (1954)
———, The Case of the Rolling Bones (1939)
———, The Case of the Runaway Corpse (1954)
———, The Case of the Screaming Woman (1957)
———, The Case of the Shapely Shadow (1960)
———, The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe (1938)
———, The Case of the Silent Partner (1940)
———, The Case of the Singing Skirt (1959)
———, The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece (1936)
———, The Case of the Spurious Spinster (1961)
———, The Case of the Stepdaughter's Secret (1963)
———, The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1936)
———, The Case of the Substitute Face (1938)
———, The Case of the Sulky Girl (1933)
———, The Case of the Sun Bather's Diary (1955)
———, The Case of the Terrified Typist (1956)
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———, The Case of the Troubled Trustee (1965)
———, The Case of the Vagabond Virgin (1948)
———, The Case of the Velvet Claws (1933)
———, The Case of the Waylaid Wolf (1960)
———, The Case of the Worried Waitress (1966)
———, The D.A. Breaks an Egg (1949)
———, The D.A. Breaks a Seal (1946)
———, The D.A. Calls a Turn (1944)
———, The D.A. Calls it Murder (1937)
———, The D.A. Cooks a Goose (1942)
———, The D.A. Draws a Circle (1939)
———, The D.A. Goes to Trial (1940)
———, The D.A. Holds a Candle (1938)
———, The D.A. Takes a Chance (1948)
Brian Wynne Garfield, Death Sentence (1975)
———, Death Wish (1972)
Albert Gerber, The Lawyer (1972)
W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, Trial by Jury (1875)
Susan Glaspell, “A Jury of Her Peers” (1946)
William Golding, Lord of the Flies (1954)
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Nadine Gordimer, “Crimes of Conscience” (1991)
Bette Greene, Summer of My German Soldier (1973)
Irving A. Greenfield, The Stars Will Judge (1974)
John Grisham, The Appeal (2008)
———, The Associate (2009)
———, The Brethren (2000)
———, The Broker (2005)
———, The Chamber (1994)
———, The Client (1993)
———, The Confession (2010)
———, The Firm (1991)
———, The King of Torts (2003)
———, The Last Juror (2004)
———, The Partner (1997)
———, The Pelican Brief (1992)
———, The Rainmaker (1995)
———, The Runaway Jury (1996)
———, The Street Lawyer (1998)
———, The Summons (2002)
———, The Testament (1999)
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———, Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer (2010)
———, A Time to Kill (1989)
———, The Pelican Brief (1992)
Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate: A Novel (1959)
David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars (1994)
H. Rider Haggard, Mr. Meeson’s Will (1888)
Bret Harte, “Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff” (1901)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Zoë Heller, The Believers (2008)
Alan Herbert, More Misleading Cases in the Common Law (1930)
Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment (1977)
Langston Hughes, “Thank You, Ma’am” (1958)
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862)
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House (1879)
Washington Irving, “The Devil and Tom Walker” (1824)
Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery” (1948)
Ben Johnson, Volpone (1606)
Lawrence Joseph, Lawyerland: What Lawyers Talk About When They Talk Law (1997)
Ward Just, “About Boston”(1983)
Franz Kafka, “In the Penal Colony” (1914)
———, The Trial (1925)
Stephen King, Secret Window, Secret Garden (1990)
Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon (1940)
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Ring Lardner, “Haircut” (1925)
Albert Lebowitz, Laban’s Will (1968)
John le Carré, The Constant Gardener (2001)
Joseph Sheridan le Fanu, “Mr. Justice Harbottle” (1872)
Meyer Levin, Compulsion (1956)
Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, Inherit the Wind (1955)
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
Jack London, “The Benefit of the Doubt” (1910)
Allessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed (1827)
W. Somerset Maugham, “The Happy Couple” (1908)
Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (1853)
———, “Benito Cereno” (1855)
———, Billy Budd (1891)
Arthur Miller, The Crucible (1953)
John Mortimer, The Dock Brief (1957)
Shiga Naoya, “Han’s Crime” (1913)
Charles Nordhoff and James Norman, Mutiny on the Bounty (1932)
Joyce Carol Oates, “Black Dahlia and White Rose” (2011)
Frank O’Connor, “Counsel for Oedipus” (1954)
———, “Legal Aid” (1951)
Cynthia Ozick, “Puttermesser: Her Work History, Her Ancestry, Her Afterlife” (1977)
George Orwell, 1984 (1949)
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———, Animal Farm (1945)
James Reid Parker, Attorneys at Law, Forbes, Hathaway, Bryan & Devore (1941)
Alan Patton, Cry the Beloved Country (1948)
K.M. Peyton, Prove Yourself a Hero (1977)
Melville Davisson Post, “The Animus Furandi” (1896)
———, “The Corpus Delicti” (1896)
Terence Rattigan, The Winslow Boy (1946)
Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Men (1954)
James Salter, “American Express” (1996)
William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1603)
———, The Merchant of Venice (1596)
George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan (1923)
Irwin Shaw, “Triumph of Justice” (1950)
Robert Silverberg, “To See the Invisible Man” (1963)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago (1973)
———, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
Elizabeth Spears, Witch of Blackbird Pond (1958)
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (1937)
Robert Louis Stephenson, Kidnapped (1886)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly (1852)
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American
Dream (1971)
James Thurber, “The Catbird Seat” (1945)
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Colm Tóibín, The Heather Blazing (1992)
Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata (1889)
———, “Too Dear!” (1897)
Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Murder (1958)
Scott Turow, The Burden of Proof (1990)
———, Innocent (2010)
———, The Laws of Our Fathers (1996)
———, Limitations (2006)
———, Ordinary Heroes (2005)
———, Personal Injuries (1999)
———, Presumed Innocent (1987)
———, Pleading Guilty (1993)
Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson (1893-94)
Peter Ustinov, “There Are 43,200 Seconds in a Day” (1968)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., “Harrison Bergeron” (1961)
Jill Patton Walsh, A Chance Child (1978)
Joseph Wambaugh, The Onion Field (1973)
Elie Wiesel, The Trial of God (1979)
Harriet Wilson, Our Nig (1859)
Avi Wortis, Night Journeys (1979)
The Law in Film
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
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A Free Soul (1931)
Counsellor at Law (1933)
The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
Crime Without Passion (1934)
Crime and Punishment (1935)
The Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Fury (1936)
King of the Pecos (1936)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Letter (1940)
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Laura (1944)
The Purple Heart (1944)
The Woman in the Window (1944)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
The Stranger (1946)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
The Paradine Case (1947)
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Behind Locked Doors (1948)
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Rope (1948)
The Accused (1949)
Act of Violence (1949)
Adam’s Rib (1949)
All the King’s Men (1949)
Border Incident (1949)
Intruder in the Dust (1949)
The Third Man (1949)
Caged (1950)
Madeleine (1950)
Mystery Street (1950)
Rashomon (1950)
The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
The People Against O’Hara (1951)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Angel Face (1952)
A Blueprint for Murder (1953)
The Trial of Peter Zenger (1953)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
The Big Knife (1955)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)
Illegal (1955)
Trial (1955)
The View from Pompey’s Head (1955)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
The Wrong Man (1956)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Across the Bridge (1957)
The Court of Last Resort (1957)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Crime and Punishment (1958)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
I Accuse! (1958)
I Want to Live! (1958)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Compulsion (1959)
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
The Young Philadelphians (1959)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
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Sanctuary (1961)
Town Without Pity (1961)
Billy Budd (1962)
Cape Fear (1962)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Trial and Error (1962)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
The Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
The Trial (1962)
Lord of the Flies (1963)
Twilight of Honor (1963)
The Naked Kiss (1964)
The Outrage (1964)
Seven Days in May (1964)
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1964)
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
The Fortune Cookie (1966)
In Cold Blood (1967)
The Boston Strangler (1968)
Bullitt (1968)
Hostile Witness (1968)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
True Grit (1969)
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Z (1969)
The Andersonville Trial (1970)
Bartleby (1970)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Dirty Harry (1971)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1971)
Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Tomorrow (1972)
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1972)
The Paper Chase (1973)
Chinatown (1974)
Clarence Darrow (1974)
Death Sentence (1974)
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
The Murri Affair (1974)
QB VII (1974)
Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
The Court-Martial of Lt. Calley (1975)
Helter Skelter (1975)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
All the President’s Men (1976)
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Animal House (1978)
Vishwanath (1978)
And Justice for All (1979)
Being There (1979)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
The Onion Field (1979)
Breaker Morant (1980)
Gideon’s Trumpet (1980)
Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)
Absence of Malice (1981)
Body Heat (1981)
Callie and Son (1981)
Diva (1981)
First Monday in October (1981)
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
Gandhi (1982)
The Verdict (1982)
Who Killed the Lindbergh Baby? (1982)
Silkwood (1983)
The Star Chamber (1983)
All of Me (1984)
Before Stonewall (1984)
1984 (1984)
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A Soldier’s Story (1984)
Solomon Northup’s Odyssey (1984)
Agnes of God (1985)
Jagged Edge (1985)
Down by Law (1986)
Legal Eagles (1986)
The Name of the Rose (1986)
From the Hip (1987)
A Gathering of Old Men (1987)
The Good Father (1987)
Nuts (1987)
Suspect (1987)
The Accused (1988)
Baby M (1988)
A Cry in the Dark (1988)
Eight Men Out (1988)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Frantic (1988)
The Good Mother (1988)
The House on Carroll Street (1988)
Judgment in Berlin (1988)
The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
The Thin Blue Line (1988)
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Criminal Law (1989)
A Dry White Season (1989)
Music Box (1989)
The War of the Roses (1989)
Blood Oath (1990)
Lord of the Flies (1990)
Presumed Innocent (1990)
Reversal of Fortune (1990)
Class Action (1991)
Darrow (1991)
Defending Your Life (1991)
Defenseless (1991)
Homicide (1991)
JFK (1991)
Let Him Have It (1991)
Other People’s Money (1991)
Regarding Henry (1991)
Separate But Equal (1991)
A Few Good Men (1992)
Incident at Oglala (1992)
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Scent of a Woman (1992)
Swoon (1992)
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Unforgiven (1992)
The Advocate (1993)
Body of Evidence (1993)
The Firm (1993)
The Fugitive (1993)
Guilty as Sin (1993)
In the Name of the Father (1993)
Justiz (1993)
The Pelican Brief (1993)
Philadelphia (1993)
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1993)
The Trial (1993)
Verdict on Auschwitz (1993)
The Client (1994)
Death and the Maiden (1994)
The Last Seduction (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Touch of Truth (1994)
Trial by Jury (1994)
White (1994)
Citizen X (1995)
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
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Jury Duty (1995)
Just Cause (1995)
Losing Isaiah (1995)
Murder in the First (1995)
The Chamber (1996)
The Crucible (1996)
Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
Indecent Seduction (1996)
Innocent Victims (1996)
Last Dance (1996)
Lone Star (1996)
Mistrial (1996)
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
The People vs. Larry Flint (1996)
Primal Fear (1996)
Sling Blade (1996)
A Time to Kill (1996)
Trial by Fire (1996)
Amistad (1997)
Boogie Nights (1997)
The Castle (1997)
Deceiver (1997)
The Devil’s Advocate (1997)
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Lawyer Lawyer (1997)
Liar, Liar (1997)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
The Rainmaker (1997)
Red Corner (1997)
Rosewood (1997)
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
A Thousand Acres (1997)
Trial and Error (1997)
The Brandon Teena Story (1998)
A Civil Action (1998)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
The Fixer (1998)
The Gingerbread Man (1998)
Les Misérables (1998)
Rounders (1998)
Very Bad Things (1998)
Wild Things (1998)
Wrongfully Accused (1998)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
The Hurricane (1999)
The Insider (1999)
Mistaken Identity (1999)
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Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
The Winslow Boy (1999)
Bread and Roses (2000)
Erin Brokovich (2000)
Nuremberg (2000)
The Power of Forgiveness (2000)
Reckless Indifference (2000)
Rules of Engagement (2000)
The Trial of Old Drum (2000)
Well-Founded Fear (2000)
Crash Course (2001)
I Am Sam (2001)
Investigation of a Flame (2001)
4 Little Girls (2001)
Legally Blonde (2001)
The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
Paradise Lost 2: The Revelations (2001)
Planet of the Apes (2001)
Steve Martini’s The Judge (2001)
Bartleby (2002)
Chicago (2002)
High Crimes (2002)
Insomnia (2002)
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Irreversible (2002)
Minority Report (2002)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Salem Witch Trials (2002)
The Specialist: Portrait of a Modern Criminal (2002)
Trial of the Moke (2002)
Two Weeks’ Notice (2002)
Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
H.H. Holmes: America’s First Serial Killer (2003)
House of Sand and Fog (2003)
I Accuse (2003)
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
Jasper, Texas (2003)
Proteus (2003)
The Runaway Jury (2003)
The Staircase (2003)
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives (2003)
Helter Skelter (2004)
The Last Letter (2004)
Laws of Attraction (2004)
The Merchant of Venice (2004)
Reversible Errors (2004)
Right to Exit: Kevorkian (2004)
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Secret Window (2004)
10th District Court (2004)
Time of Fear (2004)
After Innocence (2005)
Capote (2005)
The Constant Gardener (2005)
Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
McLibel (2005)
Munich (2005)
North Country (2005)
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
The Trials of Darryl Hunt (2005)
Trudell (2005)
Wedding Crashers (2005)
All the King’s Men (2006)
Find Me Guilty (2006)
Heavens Fall (2006)
Idiocracy (2006)
The Lives of Others (2006)
The Road to Guantanamo (2006)
Sacco and Vanzetti (2006)
Steel Toes (2006)
The Supreme Court (2006)
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The Camden 28 (2007)
Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)
Chicago 10 (2007)
Death Sentence (2007)
The Devil Came on Horseback (2007)
Fracture (2007)
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (2007)
In the Valley of Elah (2007)
Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial (2007)
Mario’s Story (2007)
Michael Clayton (2007)
Prayer Life (2007)
Reservation Road (2007)
Strange Culture (2007)
Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
Trained in the Ways of Men (2007)
Trumbo (2007)
Zodiac (2007)
American Violet (2008)
The Better Hour (2008)
God on Trial (2008)
The Last Word (2008)
Leaving Cleaver (2008)
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P.O.V.: The Judge and the General (2008)
Presumed Guilty (2008)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009)
Big Eyes (2009)
A Class Apart (2009)
Copyright Criminals (2009)
Crude (2009)
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Logorama (2009)
My Sister’s Keeper (2009)
The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
Storm (2009)
The Top Secret Trial of the Third Reich (2009)
The Conspirator (2010)
Conviction (2010)
Howl (2010)
O.J.: Monster or Myth? (2010)
Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo (2010)
The Trial (2010)
True Grit (2010)
The Tillman Story (2010)
The Trial (2010)
War Don Don (2010)
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When I Rise (2010)
The Wronged Man (2010)
Elusive Justice (2011)
Khodorkovsky (2011)
The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
Beneath the Blindfold (2012)
Beyond the Myth (2012)
Lincoln (2012)
Paradise Lost 3 (2012)
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