An Atlanta attorney writes that many great works of literature offer wisdom about the political perils of revenge and retribution. In little more than a month, President-elect Donald Trump will be ...

When Profs. Martha Nussbaum and Saul Levmore asked six prominent judges to contribute to their new book, American Guy: Masculinity in American Law and Literature (Oxford University Press), they ...

Literature has had a long relationship with medicine through literary images of disease, literary images of physicians and other healers, works of literature by physician-writers, and the use of ...

Former chief justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Friday said that literature humanised the law and could bridge the gaps of context and compassion in legal texts. The former CJI was apeaking at the ...

BROOKE GLADSTONE: This is On the Media. I’m Brooke Gladstone. BOB GARFIELD: And I'm Bob Garfield. We learned recently that music lyrics, at least as defined by the Nobel Prize Committee, can be deemed ...

Rosalie S. Abella is a former justice of the Canadian Supreme Court and the Samuel LLM ’55, SJD ’59 and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. This interview has been edited for ...

A NOVEL or a play without a lawyer in it is rare and unconventional. Wills have to be made, criminals to be tracked, and family secrets to be ferreted out or locked up in the incommunicable bosom of ...

About the book: This book brings together leading critics in American literature to address the representation of time throughout a wide range of genres, methodologies, and chronological periods.

Does the literary canon speak to our time? Of course it does. Whatever else it is, The Odyssey is an account of post-traumatic stress disorder. Romeo and Juliet offers enduring insights into teen ...

If you graduated from law school within the past five decades, you probably saw on the menu of courses offered during your second or third year a curious seminar with a title like “Law and Literature” ...

Rukshani Weerasooriya Wijemanne’s Legal Tales series transforms legal history into playful, lyrical tales for children and families.

In little more than a month, President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. Incumbent President Joe Biden has promised a peaceful transfer of power. In the ...