Series blurb:

Elements in Legal Humanities offers a home for groundbreaking research at the intersection of law and the humanities. Clustered around six broad themes – concepts, methods, persons, places, things, and times – the series defamiliarizes seemingly familiar terms (such as “cases,” “courtrooms,” or “punishment”), while also recovering lost or neglected voices and bringing emerging ideas and techniques from the humanities to bear on law. Recognizing the deep history of relations between law and humanities, the series explores their entangled pasts, probing their mutual deployment of the arts of language (grammar, dialectic, rhetoric), invention, imagination, persuasion, performance, and the ritual mystifications of power (local, national, imperial, global). While showing how resources in the humanities can be critical tools for making visible the workings of law, the series also examines how law can open new modes of thought in the humanities. Taking a deep dive into law, its imaginaries, and its material life, Elements in Legal Humanities looks at the intersections of its two domains: at grand narratives and eccentricities, at the macroscopic and the microscopic, at surfaces and depths, at the fleeting and the enduring.

About the Editors

Maksymilian Del Mar is Professor of Legal Theory and Legal Humanities at Queen Mary University of London. He reads, and sometimes writes, about the theory and history of imagination, emotion, knowledge, rhetoric, embodiment, pedagogy, sociality, and law. 

Julie Stone Peters is the H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and an Affiliated Faculty Member at Columbia Law School. A scholar of law and humanities and media history, she studies performance, film, digital, and legal cultures across the longue durée.