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Law & Literature on 'Legal Bodies'

Special Issue - Legal Bodies: Corpus/Persona/Communitas We are pleased to offer you free access* to the latest Special issue from Law & Literature on 'Legal Bodies'.  Read the Special Issue here. Law & Literature  is the leading interdisciplinary law journal directed to law and the arts. This issue investigates the way literary and artistic texts interrogate the notion of 'personhood', focussing on both historical and contemporary (re-) conceptualizations of the notion within the domain of law. Articles include:  “Sua cuique persona?” A Note on the Fiction of Legal Personhood and a Reflection on Interdisciplinary Consequences  Jeanne Gaakeer Braying Howling, Growling for Justice: Animal Personhood in Law, Literature, and Cinema   Yasco Horsman The Turn to Passion: Has Law and Literature become Law and Affect?   Greta Olson Corpus Juris, Habeas Corpus, and the “Corporeal Turn” i...