The Letter of the Law: Literature, Justice and the Other

Contents: Costas Douzinas: The Letter of the Law and the Spirit of Literature - Stamatina Dimakopoulou/Christina Dokou/Efterpi Mitsi: The Other as the (Purloined) Letter of the Law - Kinga Földváry: Outlaw or Above the Law? Legal Issues in William Harrison's Description of England - Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou: Law, Justice and Poetry in Faerie Land - Zoe Detsi-Diamanti: Legal Exclusion vs. Republican Inclusion in Judith S. Murray's The Traveller Returned (1796) - Nic Panagopoulos: Sovereign Law and Bare Life in Bleak House - Sheila Teahan: The Remedy of Law - Ava Baron: Happy Ending for Women Workers, or Tragedy for the Workplace? Cultural and Legal Narratives of Sexual Harassment in the United States - Jeffrey L. Spear: Was She This Name? Law, Literature and the «Devadasi» - Helen Nicholson: «Portia in Petticoats»: The Legal Performances of Georgina Weldon - Christina Dokou: Courtroom Humour, Performative Justice: The Case of Harper Lee vs. Fannie Flagg - Maria Vara: «Victim Precipitation» in the Anti-detective Fiction of Muriel Spark and Diane Johnson - Yannis Stamos: Literature Before the Law: Derrida on the Democratic «Right to Say Everything» - Elina Staikou: Burning Dead Letters: Bartleby, Law and Literature in the Nuclear Age - Shela Sheikh: Bartleby - Derrida: Literature, Law and Responsibility - Cláudia Trabuco: Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur? Authorship, Originality and the Work of Vergílio Ferreira - Anna-Maria Piskopani: Reality-flirting Literature as an Aliud in Defamation and Privacy Law.

Efterpi Mitsi is an Associate Professor in English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, with publications on early modern and travel literature.
Christina Dokou is Assistant Professor of American Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her areas of interest, on which she has published articles and anthology chapters, include comparative literature, American folklore, comics and gender studies.
Stamatina Dimakopoulou is Assistant Professor in American Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, with publications in the field of modernist studies.