Law & Literature

Journal overview

Law and Literature was founded in 1988 as the journal of the Law and Literature movement. It has since become the leading interdisciplinary law journal directed to law and the arts, with a specific focus on critical theory, historical inquiry, and literary expression in its diverse media and forms. It welcomes articles examining intersections between literary and legal traditions, and provides a forum for reconsidering disciplinary boundaries and categories. Recent and upcoming issues include articles on law and film, Nelson Mandela, literature and privacy, Shakespeare and the law, Hauntology and intellectual property, the rhetoric of closing statements, Tiberius and legal fiction, the jurisprudence of visual art, Yugoslav literature and censorship, Don Quixote as critique of law, narrative forms and much more. Contributions to the journal have come from Stanley Fish, Cornelia Vismann, Laurent de Sutter, Bernhard Schlink, Andrew Counter, Julie Stone Peters, Barton Beebe, Anselm Haverkamp, Desmond Manderson, Maria Aristodemou, James Boyd White, and Paul Raffield, and include translations of continental and Latin American literary and legal scholars.

Law and Literature is edited by Professor Marco Wan [email protected] , the Executive Editor and General Editors, with the support of an expansive international Editorial Board, and appears three times a year. The journal is open to submissions in any domain of law and the arts; published articles have undergone editorial screening and anonymized peer review.

Submissions should be sent in Word to Professor Marco Wan at [email protected] , or by snail mail to Professor Marco Wan, Faculty of Law, 10th Floor, Cheng Yu Tung Building, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.

Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.

Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.

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