Law, mystery, and the humanities
Subtitle: collected essays
By: edited by Logan Atkinson and Diana Majury.
Contributors: Atkinson, Logan, 1954-; Majury, Diana, 1952-
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780802090010
Subjects: Law.; Humanities.; Law and literature.; Sociological jurisprudence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Points of convergence : law, mystery, and the humanities / Diana Majury and Logan Atkinson; value: Murder and mayhem in legal method : or, the strange case of Sherlock Holmes v. Sam Spade / Neil C. Sargent; value: Analytic philosophy and the interpretation of constitutional rights / Sophia Moreau; value: Nature : from philosophy of science to legal theory ... and back? / Alain Papaux; value: Language and law as objects of scientific study / Rémi Samson; value: I beg to differ : interdisciplinary questions about law, language, and dissent / Marie-Claire Belleau and Rebecca Johnson; value: Imagining sedition : law and the emerging public sphere in Upper Canada, c. 1798-1828 / Barry Wright; value: Human rights poetry as ethical tribunal : bodies and bystanders in Margaret Atwood's 'Footnote to the Amnesty report on torture' / Brenda Carr Vellino; value: Who do we blame for blame? Moving beyond the fiction of blame in The sweet hereafter / Diana Majury; value: 'Our woe ... Our great distress' : law, literature, and suffering during the Great Plague of London, 1665 / Logan Atkinson; value: The strange gospel and a common law : the reconciling word to a fragmented world / M.H. Ogilvie; value: The re-enchantment of the world? Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, and human rights / Clinton Timothy Curle.