Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Le mot juste
- 2 Life plus ninety-nine years: the fantasy of legal fictions
- 3 Time's desire: the temporality of justice
- 4 One touch of nature: literature and natural law
- 5 The course of a particular: justice and singularity
- 6 Truth, justice, and the pathos of understanding
- 7 Conclusion: legal fictions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Le mot juste
- 2 Life plus ninety-nine years: the fantasy of legal fictions
- 3 Time's desire: the temporality of justice
- 4 One touch of nature: literature and natural law
- 5 The course of a particular: justice and singularity
- 6 Truth, justice, and the pathos of understanding
- 7 Conclusion: legal fictions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
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- Poetic Justice and Legal Fictions , pp. 157 - 166Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010