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Law and Love in Ovid: Courting Justice in the Age of Augustus 奥维德的法律与爱情:奥古斯都时代的追求正义

Law & Literature Pub Date : 2022-11-25 DOI: 10.1080/1535685X.2023.2145065

I. Ward

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Sensing Justice through Contemporary Spanish Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics 通过当代西班牙电影感知正义:美学，政治

Law & Literature Pub Date : 2022-11-25 DOI: 10.1080/1535685X.2023.2145064

Abigail Loxham

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Capital Letters: Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus, and the Death Penalty 大写字母:雨果、波德莱尔、加缪和死刑

Law & Literature Pub Date : 2022-11-18 DOI: 10.1080/1535685x.2023.2145063

B. Lewis

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Ian Ward, the Play of Law in Modern British Theatre 伊恩·沃德，现代英国戏剧中的法律剧

Law & Literature Pub Date : 2022-08-26 DOI: 10.1080/1535685X.2022.2095785

Marett Leiboff

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Maksymilian Del Mar, Artefacts of Legal Inquiry: The Value of Imagination in Adjudication 《法律探究的人工制品:想象在审判中的价值》

Law & Literature Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.1080/1535685x.2022.2095789

Edward Mussawir

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Stephanie Elsky, Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature 斯蒂芬妮·埃尔斯基:《习俗、普通法与英国文艺复兴文学的构成》

Law & Literature Pub Date : 2022-07-21 DOI: 10.1080/1535685x.2022.2095787

Julia Reinhard Lupton

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Eros against Law: Levinas and Erotic Interiority in Don Juan of Kolomea 违背法律的爱欲:《科洛美亚的唐璜》中的列维纳斯与情色内在性

Law & Literature Pub Date : 2022-06-29 DOI: 10.1080/1535685X.2022.2085416

Reuben Carias

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Disrupting Undocumentation: Municipal ID Cards against Passport Fetishism 破坏无证件:市政身份证反对护照拜物教

Law & Literature Pub Date : 2022-06-22 DOI: 10.1080/1535685X.2022.2084285

Michiel Bot

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Legal Cultures in the Age of Goethe: An Introduction 歌德时代的法律文化:导论

Law & Literature Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/1535685X.2021.1885157

Matthew K. Bell, D. Vecchiato

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Squaring Law and Literature: Materiality – Comparativity – Constitutivity 法律与文学:物质性-比较性-构成性

Law & Literature Pub Date : 2022-04-04 DOI: 10.1080/1535685X.2022.2052598

E. Achermann, K. Stierstorfer

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