1.Pro lex omenon: Towards a Novel Legal Theory of the Novel as Legal Theory 2. John Austin or Jane Austen? The Province of Jurisprudence Determined in Pride and Prejudice 3.Jousting with Bentham: Utility, Morality and Ethics in Ivanhoe’s Tournament of Law 4. The Monstrous Body of the Law: Wollstonecraft vs. Shelley 5. Hawthorne ’s Haunted House of Law: The Romance of American Legal Realism in The House of the Seven Gables 6. In Boz We Trust! Bleak House’s (Re)Imagination of Trusteeship.7: Two on a Guillotine? Courts and ‘Crits’ in A Tale of Two Cities 8. Beyond Governmentality: The Question of Justice in Great Expectations 9. A Jurisprudential Postscript: Century's Close and the End of of the (Meta)Narrative of Law
Biography
William P. MacNeil is the Dean of the Griffith Law School, Queensland, Australia. Trained in both law and literature, MacNeil has published widely in the field of cultural legal studies.
Much the strength of Novel Judgements comes from its confident joining of the Victorian ‘juridical imaginary’ to the topoi of legal theory. - Shaun McVeigh for Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia
MacNeil's book largely succeeds in showing what we can learn about legal critiques by reading certain works of fiction with a jurisprudential eye. - Jane J. Lee, University of Washington, for Review 19
