Law & Literature

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Law and Literature was founded in 1988 as the journal of the Law and Literature movement. It has since become the leading interdisciplinary law journal directed to law and the arts, with a specific focus on critical theory, historical inquiry, and literary expression in its diverse media and forms. It welcomes articles examining intersections between literary and legal traditions, and provides a forum for reconsidering disciplinary boundaries and categories. Recent and upcoming issues include articles on law and film, Nelson Mandela, literature and privacy, Shakespeare and the law, Hauntology and intellectual property, the rhetoric of closing statements, Tiberius and legal fiction, the jurisprudence of visual art, Yugoslav literature and censorship, Don Quixote as critique of law, narrative forms and much more. Contributions to the journal have come from Stanley Fish, Cornelia Vismann, Laurent de Sutter, Bernhard Schlink, Andrew Counter, Julie Stone Peters, Barton Beebe, Anselm Haverkamp, Desmond Manderson, Maria Aristodemou, James Boyd White, and Paul Raffield, and include translations of continental and Latin American literary and legal scholars.

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Country of Publication & Year Established

International

Established in 1988

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Scholars, Specific group.

Lengths:

Article: Up to 10,000 words.

Styles:

Academic.

Topics:

Film/Television: See guidelines.
Law/Juridical Science: See guidelines.
Literature/Books: See guidelines.
Visual Arts: See guidelines.

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Media: Text.

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Last Updated: 13 Jul 2026

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