Introduction: World Literature and Law
Marco Wan
1. Derring Literarity: The Case of Negative Comparative Law
Pierre Legrand
2. Disrupting Undocumentation: Municipal ID Cards Against Passport Fetishism
Michiel Bot
3. Guilty, until Proven Innocent: The Fossilization of Discriminatory Policies in Visa Law and Policy as Portrayed in Anna Segher’s Transit and Juan de Recacoechea’s American Visa
Dharshani Lakmali Jayasinghe
4. Tragic Staging as Critique in the War Crimes Tribunal: The Suicide of Slobodan Praljak
Julie Stone Peters
5. Emblems Performing Law
Valérie Hayaert
6. The Utopian Law and Literature of Systematic Colonisation
Shane Chalmers
7. “The Love Laws”: Section 377 and the Politics of Queerness in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
Leila Neti
8. “Land[s] beyond the White World”: (Re)imagining the International through Fiction
Christopher Gevers
9. Literature as Legal History: Understanding the Colonial Roots of the Nigerian Police Force
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10. On What Mutters: The Unnamable Subject of Practical Reason Finnis..Raz…Beckett..Cha
Adam Gearey
11. Annie Ernaux, Dobbs, and the Right to Tell Abortion Stories
Elizabeth S. Anker
12. Adoption Archives: Documents, Subjecthood, and the Possibility of Justice
Kelly M. Rich
13. Into One’s Own Hands: The Shape of Justice in China’s Rust Belt
Haiyan Lee
14. The War on Drugs between Exception and Legitimacy: García Márquez’s News of a Kidnapping
Héctor Hoyos and Jorge González-Jácome
15. Law and Literature in Argentina
Jorge Luis Roggero
16. The Union of India: Bodily Unity in Indian Law and Literature
Sabarish Suresh
17. Planetary Gifts of Law and Literature
Benjamin Goh
Biography
Marco Wan is Professor of Law and Director of the Law and Literary Studies Program at the University of Hong Kong. He serves as the Managing Editor of Law & Literature. His publications include Film and Constitutional Controversy: Visualizing Hong Kong Identity in the Age of ‘One Country, Two Systems’ (2021) and Masculinity and the Trials of Modern Fiction (2017; winner of the biennial Penny Pether Prize from the Law, Literature, and Humanities Association of Australasia). He is currently co-editing a volume that examines the intersections between literature and law across the anglophone colonial and postcolonial world.
