Teaching Law and Literature

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. He is the author of The Road to Abolition? The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States and When Government Breaks the Law. Cathrine O. Frank is associate professor of English at the University of New England. She is author of Law, Literature, and the Transmission of Culture in England, 1837-1925 and, with Austin Sarat and Matthew Anderson, of Law and the Humanities: An Introduction. Matthew Anderson is associate professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture and Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music.

"Students in undergraduate humanities courses will benefit from studying the way legal realities help shape and inform literary works. Law teachers may usefully assign chapters from the text to explore law's narrative drama." --Richard Sherwin, New York Law School "A refreshingly cogent evaluation of the law and literature movement in all of its manifestations. . . . It is not too much to say that Teaching Law and Literatureis indispensable to those entering the field, and of immense value to those who have made the field what it is." --Allen Mendenhall, Southern Humanities Review