"Law and Literature," as I note in my
review of a novel by a Dallas bankruptcy judge, "is the subdivision of
legal studies that looks beyond statutes, formal rules, and reported cases to
assess how fiction and other works of literature reveal popular perceptions of
doctrines, practices, and legal institutions at certain times; how fiction
represents and illustrates law at work; and how it can show or reflect on legal
thought, legal methods, or legal ways of understanding and explaining
life."
Josiah
M. Daniel, III, A Review of Stacey G.C. Jernigan, He Watches All My Paths
(2019), State Bar of Texas, Bankruptcy Section, Newsletter (April 2019 —
Spec. Ed.) available at https://statebaroftexasbankruptcy.com/resources/Documents/Newsletters/43604-Bankruptcy%20Law%20Special%20Edition%20Newsletter%2019%20P5%20update%204_16.pdf
(citing Simon Stern, Literary Analysis of Law, Ch. 4 in Marcus D.
Dubber & Christopher Tomlins, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Legal History
63-64 (Oxford, 2018)).
