9781595581945

The fiction and poetry that every literate lawyer will want to know and every armchair attorney will devour. "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."--William Shakespeare Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ayn Rand, Martin Luther King Jr., and Johnny Cash have all written it. Joseph K., Hurricane Carter, Portia, and Bigger Thomas have starred in the most timeless examples of the genre. And now, law school professor and noted novelist Thane Rosenbaum has collected the crusaders and casualties of the law, both real and imagined, in one handsome volume of "law lit." Some of the finest writers in the world have been tantalized by the law and the nature of judgment, justice, and revenge. With dozens of selections, including prose, poetry, essays, and even TV and film scripts,Law Litis a dazzling collection that transcends place and time, from ancient Greece to foggy London to the narrow streets of Prague and the spectacle of an Alabama courthouse, offering an enlightening look at the legal system and its practitioners and at how lives can be laid bare before the bench.

Editor's Note	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
The Law Elevated	p. 1
from To Kill a Mockingbird	p. 3
from Presumed Innocent	p. 6
from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson	p. 8
from Native Son	p. 14
from The Nature of the Judicial Process	p. 20
from The Verdict	p. 25
Opinion from Schmidt v. United States	p. 26
from "J'accuse"	p. 29
Lawless Law	p. 35
from 'A Vendetta"	p. 37
from The Count of Monte Cristo	p. 42
from A Time to Kill	p. 45
The Law and Liberty	p. 47
from The Trial	p. 49
from Civil Disobedience	p. 53
from "The Grande Lettre"	p. 55
from The Book of Daniel	p. 58
from "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"	p. 60
from The Scarlet Letter	p. 65
from Intruder in the Dust	p. 69
from The Handmaid's Tale	p. 73
from The Fountainhead	p. 79
The Law Made Low	p. 85
From Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison	p. 87
from Les Miserables	p. 90
from "Hurricane"	p. 95
"Folsom Prison Blues"	p. 98
from The Stranger	p. 100
from Billy Budd, Sailor	p. 105
from The Book of Daniel	p. 114
from An American Tragedy	p. 117
from Lucky	p. 123
The Law Laborious	p. 133
from Bleak House	p. 135
from "Bartleby, the Scrivener"	p. 142
from The Practice	p. 148
from One L	p. 150
from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	p. 157
from The Floating Opera	p. 163
The Lawyer as Lout	p. 171
"The Lawyers Know Too Much"	p. 173
from A Doll's House	p. 175
from "The Self-seeker"	p. 180
from The Death of Ivan Ilych	p. 188
from Bleak House	p. 190
from The Sweet Hereafter	p. 196
The Law and the Loophole	p. 205
from Presumed Innocent	p. 207
"After Twenty Years"	p. 209
"The Hidden Law"	p. 213
"The Lawyers' Ways"	p. 214
from The Merchant of Venice	p. 216
from A Few Good Men	p. 222
Layman's Law	p. 231
from "A Jury of Her Peers"	p. 233
from "Thank You, M'am"	p. 247
from A Civil Action	p. 251
from "An Apology"	p. 255
The Law and Longing	p. 263
from The Hills Beyond	p. 265
from The Book of Daniel	p. 270
from The Brothers Karamazov	p. 273
from Oedipus, the King	p. 281
from Inherit the Wind	p. 284
Acknowledgments	p. 289
Permissions and Sources	p. 291
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