The World of Law, Volume II : The Law as Literature

by Ephraim London (Editor)

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Volume 1 includes writings by Cervantes, Dickens, Terence Rattigan, Lewis Carroll, Guy de Maupassant, Jack London, Anton Chekhov, John Galsworthy, Luigi Pirandello, Sholom Aleichem, W.S. Gilbert, Frank O'Connor, Shiga Naoya, Anatole France, Agatha Christie, Arthur C. Train, Karel Capek, Mark Twain, John Mortimer, Herman Wouk, A.A. Milne, William Faulkner, Honore de Balzac, Sir Walter Scott, James Reid Parker, Theobald Mathew, W. Somerset Maugham, O. Henry, Louis Auchincloss, Bret Harte, Ben show more Hecht, Rabelais, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and Robert Benchley. Volume 2 includes writings by Damon Runyan, William Makepeace Thackeray, H.L. Mencken, Felix Frankfurter, Stephen Crane, Henry James, James McNeill Whistler, John Peter Zenger, Lloyd Paul Stryker, Emile Zola, Morris Raphael Cohen, Sybille Bedford, Edgar Lustgarten, Rebecca West, Joan of Arc, Clarence Darrow, Oscar Wilde, Plato, Daniel Webster, Sir Charles Russell, Gandhi, Robert H. Jackson, George Bernard Shaw, Albert Camus, A.P. Herbert, Francis Bacon, Edmond Cahn, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Herman Melville, Henry Miller, Lon L. Fuller, Jonathan Swift, Justice Benjamin Cardozo, Piero Calamandrei, Judge Learned Hand, Judge Jerome Frank, Judge William O. Douglas, Montaigne, James Boswell, and W.H. Auden. show less

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Auden, W.H. (Contributor)
Bacon, Francis (Contributor)
Bedford, Sybille (Contributor)
Boswell, James (Contributor)
Brandeis, Louis D. (Contributor)
Cahn, Edmond (Contributor)
Calamandrei, Piero (Contributor)
Camus, Albert (Contributor)
Cardozo, Benjamin (Contributor)
Cohen, Morris Raphael (Contributor)
Crane, Stephen (Contributor)
Darrow, Clarence (Contributor)
Frank, Jerome (Contributor)
Frankfurter, Felix (Contributor)
Fuller, Lon L. (Contributor)
Gandhi, Mahatma (Contributor)
Hand, Learned (Contributor)
Herbert, A.P. (Contributor)
Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell (Contributor)
Jackson, Robert H. (Contributor)
James, Henry (Contributor)
Joan of Arc (Contributor)
Lustgarten, Edgar (Contributor)
Melville, Herman (Contributor)
Mencken, H.L. (Contributor)
Miller, Henry (Contributor)
Montaigne (Contributor)
Plato (Contributor)
Runyon, Damon (Contributor)
Russell, Sir Charles (Contributor)
Shaw, George Bernard (Contributor)
Stryker, Lloyd Paul (Contributor)
Swift, Jonathan (Contributor)
Thackeray, William Makepeace (Contributor)
Webster, Daniel (Contributor)
West, Rebecca (Contributor)
Whistler, James McNeill (Contributor)
Wilde, Oscar (Contributor)
Zenger, John Peter (Contributor)
Zola, Émile (Contributor)

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Law Like Love by W. H. Auden
"'Daddy" and "'Peaches" (in Law as Lit) by Damon Runyon
The Case of Peytel (in Law as Lit) by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti: A Critical Analysis for Lawyers and Laymen by Felix Frankfurter
The Scopes Trial (in Law as Lit) by H. L. Mencken
An Eloquence of Grief by Stephen Crane
The trial of John Peter Zenger, of New-York, printer, who was tried and acquitted, for printing and publishing a libel against the government : with the pleadings and arguments on both sides by John Peter Zenger
The Trial of Queen Caroline (in Law as Lit) by Lloyd Paul Stryker
J'accuse by Émile Zola
The Bertrand Russell Case: A Scandalous Denial of Justice (in Law as Lit) by Morris Raphael Cohen
The Trial of Dr. Adams by Sybille Bedford
The Trial of Lizzie Borden (in Law as Lit) by Edgar Lustgarten
On the Nuremberg Trial (in Law as Lit) by Rebecca West
Testimony Given at Her Trial for Heresy and Witchcraft (in Law as Lit) by Joan of Arc
Summation in the Sweet Case (in Law as Lit) by Clarence Darrow
Apology by Plato
Summation in the Trial of John Francis Knapp for the Murder of Joseph White (in Law as Lit) by Daniel Webster
Address to the Jury at His Trial for Libel (in Law as Lit) by Émile Zola
The Cross-Examination of Richard Pigott by Charles Arthur Russell Baron Russell of Killowen
A Plea for the Severest Penalty, Upon His Conviction for Sedition (in Law as Lit) by Mahatma Gandhi
Nuremberg trial series : closing address before the International Military Tribunal by Robert Houghwout Jackson
On the Entirely Reasonable Murder of a Police Constable (in Law as Lit) by George Bernard Shaw
Reflections on the Guillotine by Albert Camus
On the Law Prohibiting Business on the Lord's Day/On the Reasonable Man/The Gramophone Libel Case by A. P. Herbert
Of Judicature (in Law as Lit) by Francis Bacon
Preface to The Maxims of the Law (in Law as Lit) by Francis Bacon
The Consumers of Injustice (in Law as Lit) by Edmond Cahn
Dissenting Opinion in United States v. Schwimmer (in Law as Lit) by Jr. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish by Herman Melville
Defence of the Freedom to Read. A letter to the Supreme Court of Norway, in connection with the ban on “Sexus”-“The Rosy Crucifixion.” Forsvar for lesefriheten. Brev til Norges Høyeste domstol i anledning av beslagleggelsen av “Sexus.” Eng. & Nor by Henry Miller
The Path of the Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The Case of the Speluncean Explorers by Lon L. Fuller
"On the Science of the Law" (in Law as Lit) by Jonathan Swift
The Nature of the Judicial Process, Part I (in Law as Lit) by Benjamin Cardozo
The Crisis in the Reasoned Opinion (in Law as Lit) by Piero Calamandrei
Opinion and Dissenting Opinion in Repouille v. United States (in Law as Lit) by Learned Hand
Opinion on Schmidt v. United States (in Law as Lit) by Learned Hand
Advice to a Young Man Interested in Going into Law (in Law as Lit) by Felix Frankfurter
Letter to Harold Laski (in Law as Lit) by Jr. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Opinion in Buck v. Bell (in Law as Lit) by Jr. Oliver Wendell Holmes
On Lawsuits as Inquiries into the Truth (in Law as Lit) by Jerome Frank
from "Of Experience" (in Law as Lit) by Michel de Montaigne

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The World of Law, Volume II : The Law as Literature

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Fiction and Literature, Politics and Government, Literature Studies and Criticism
DDC/MDS
809.93 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures Literature displaying specific features, miscellaneous writings Literature displaying other aspects
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K235 — Law Jurisprudence. Philosophy and theory of law
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