A) LAW AND POETRY : Jurisprudence, Politics, War and the Message - W.H. Auden and Messages at War; Nationhood and Identity - R.S. Thomas; Ethics, Law and Assisted Suicide - John Stallworthy and Seamus Heaney
B) LAW AND POPULAR CULTURE: Sex and Violence, Nature or Nurture? - J.G. Ballard; Choices and Censorship: John van Druten, Playwright and Lawyer; Media Hijack - Householder Defence, Rape and Straw Dogs
C) LAW AND PROSE NARRATIVES: Expert Evidence: Medico-Legal Stories of Female Insanity: Three Nullity Suits; Law, Morals, Marriage and Cohabitation - Thomas Hardy Today; Rape or Seduction? Facts and Fictions - Tess of the dUrbervilles and John Sutherland
Biography
Melanie Williams, MA (Cantab), MA (Sussex), is the author of Empty Justice: One Hundred Years of Law, Literature and Philosophy, which received excellent reviews in several scholarly journals when published in 2002. She is Reader in Law at the University of Wales, Swansea.
