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Abstract. Novel Constitutions argues that Anglo-American racial slavery emerged from a seventeenth-century English constitutional crisis exported into the

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How close reading developed as an essential tool of critical thinking and democratic citizenship

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In Measure for Measure, Shakespeare’s severe justice Angelo urges the problems that might arise from a static conception of the law: ‘We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the...

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This is a preprint draft of a contribution to the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, ed. Robert Spoo and Simon Stern (London: Elgar, 2025), 104-0

Soon available for purchase: Law, Narrative, Narratology: Interdisciplinary Essays (Greta Olson and Simon Stern, eds., New York Universit...

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Chloë Kennedy’s Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law (Cambridge 2024) tackles an important and timely topic that resonates across jurisdictions worldwide—the regulation of deceptively ind...

Abstract Framed as a critique of Timothy Bewes’s Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age and Anna Kornbluh’s Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism and focusing on classic novels by Ja...

This book examines the murder ballad form, songs about death and killing, from a legal history perspective. It is held that taking on the long history of the murder ballad is a way that we can underst...