Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1. Points of Convergence: Law, Mystery, and the Humanities 3
5. Part I. Rationality
6. 2. Murder and Mayhem in Legal Method: or, the Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes v. Sam Spade 39
7. 3. Analytic Philosophy and the Interpretation of Constitutional Rights 67
8. 4 Nature: From Philosophy of Science to Legal Theory ... and Back? 91
9. 5. Language and Law as Objects of Scientific Study 121
10. Part II. Dissent
11. 6. I Beg to Differ: Interdisciplinary Questions about Law, Language, and Dissent 145
12. 7. Imagining Sedition: Law and the Emerging Public Sphere in Upper Canada, c. 1798–1828 167
13. Part Three. Suffering
14. 8. Human Rights Poetry as Ethical Tribunal: Bodies and Bystanders in Margaret Atwood’s ‘Footnote to the Amnesty Report on Torture’ 217
15. 9. Who Do We Blame for Blame? Moving beyond the Fiction of Blame in The Sweet Hereafter 247
16. 10. ‘Our Woe ... Our Great Distress’: Law, Literature, and Suffering during the Great Plague of London, 1665 279
17. Part IV. Transcendence
18. 11. The Strange Gospel and a Common Law: The Reconciling Word to a Fragmented World 305
19. 12. The Re-enchantment of the World? Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, and Human Rights 347
20. Contributors 371