A theological jurisprudence of speculative cinema : superheroes, science fictions and fantasies of modern law / by Peters, Timothy D., JSTOR

Table of Contents: “…7 'If more people valued home above gold this world would be a merrier place': Hospitality, Gift-exchange and the Theological Jurisprudence of J. R. R. Tolkien's and Peter Jackson's Th e Hobbit --…”
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Rethinking the reasonable person : an egalitarian reconstruction of the objective standard / by Moran, Mayo, Oxford Scholarship Online

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Murder most Russian : true crime and punishment in late imperial Russia / by McReynolds, Louise, 1952-

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Dickens's forensic realism : truth, bodies, evidence / by Mangham, Andrew, 1979-, JSTOR

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Platonic legislations : an essay on legal critique in ancient Greece / by Dusenbury, David Lloyd, SpringerLink (Online service)

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Music in the horror films of Val Lewton / by Lee, Michael, 1963-, JSTOR

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Essays in legal philosophy / by Bulygin, Eugenio, Oxford Scholarship Online

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Reading for the law : British literary history and gender advocacy / by Krueger, Christine L.

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Democratic inclusion : Rainer Bauböck in dialogue / by Bauböck, Rainer, Manchester OpenHive

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Cicero's law : rethinking Roman law of the late Republic / by JSTOR books

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The rise of the Roman jurists : studies in Cicero's Pro Caecina / by Frier, Bruce W., 1943-

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Spacing (in) Diaspora : Law, Literature and the Roma / by Patchett, Emma, PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A Literary Jurisprudence of Entanglement --…”
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Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and master it : the ancient and medieval career of a Biblical text / by Cohen, Jeremy, 1953-, JSTOR

Table of Contents: “…Biblical Foundations -- Defining a Cosmic Frontier: Genesis 1:28 in the Aggadah -- Transformation in the Halakhah -- Medieval Rabbinic Applications: Jurisprudence, Exegesis, And Mysticism -- Christian Biblical Commentary -- The Primordial Blessing and the Law of Nature -- Conclusion: A Look Forward and Back.…”
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Whispered consolations : law and narrative in African American life / by Suggs, Jon Christian, 1940-, PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…In search of justice and jurisprudence -- Romance and resistance -- The romance of desire and identity -- Privacy, property, and self -- Law and the urbanization of narrative in "postproperty" African American life -- Lynchings and passing -- Resistance in Renascence -- At the end of histories.…”
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Wisdom, politics, and historiography : Tractate Avot in the context of the Graeco-Roman Near East / by Tropper, Amram D., Oxford Scholarship Online

Table of Contents: “…Avot in the Light of Classical Roman Jurisprudence --…”
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Law and literature / by Posner, Richard A., PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Reflections of law in literature -- Law's beginnings: revenge as legal prototype -- Antinomies of legal theory -- The limits of literary jurisprudence -- Literary indictments of legal injustice -- Two legal perspectives on Kafka -- Penal theory in Paradise lost -- Interpreting contracts, statutes, and constitutions -- Judicial opinions as literature -- Literature as a source of background knowledge for law -- Improving trial and appellate advocacy -- But can literature humanize law? …”
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Analysing Muslim traditions : studies in legal, exegetical and Maghazi hadith / by Motzki, Harald, PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Chapter One. The Jurisprudence of Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri. A Source-Critical Study (Harald Motzki); Chapter Two. …”
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The legal thriller from Gardner to Grisham : see you in court! / by Sauerberg, Lars Ole, 1950-, ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions

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The soul of statesmanship : Shakespeare on nature, virtue, and political wisdom / by ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Tragedy and the Folly of the Ruler; 1 One That Loved Not Wisely But Too Well; 2 Macbeth; 3 Wings as Swift as Love; Part II: Comedy and the Reign of Wisdom; 4 Both False and True; 5 Jurisprudence in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice; 6 Christian Ethics and Political Moderation in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure; Part III: History and Rule as the Measure of Statesmen; 7 The Bastard in King John; or, On the Need for a Unified English Nation; 8 To Make High Majesty Look Like Itself; 9 This Blessed Plot; Index…”
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Organizing knowledge : encyclopaedic activities in the pre-eighteenth century Islamic world / by PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Editor's Note -- The Contributors -- The Concept of Encyclopaedia -- Encyclopadeic Activities in the Islamic World: A Few Questions, and No Answers -- The Arabic Islamic Traditions -- Biographical Dictionaries as the Scholars' Alternative History of the Muslim Community -- Encyclopaedic Activities in Islamic Jurisprudence -- The Iranian and Greek Traditions -- The Greek and Persian Background of Early Arabic Encyclopedism -- The Cycle of Knowledge: Intellectual Traditions and Encyclopaedias of the Rational Sciences in Arabic Islamic Hellenism -- Organizing Scientific Knowledge: The 'Mixed' Sciences in Early Classifications -- The Brethen of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa') and Their Philosophical Treatises (Rasa'il) -- Integrative Concepts -- Al-Qazwini's 'Aja'ib al-makhluqat: An Encyclopaedia of Natural History? …”
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