Elements in Legal Humanities launches
Cambridge University Press has announced the launch of a new interdisciplinary series: Elements in Legal Humanities. This series is part of the Elements platform at CUP, which publishes short monographs (of no more than 30,000 words).
The Elements in Legal Humanities series is a home for groundbreaking research at the intersection of law and the humanities. Clustered around six broad themes – concepts, methods, persons, places, things, and times – the series defamiliarizes seemingly familiar terms (such as “cases,” “courtrooms,” or “punishment”), while also recovering lost or neglected voices and bringing emerging ideas and techniques from the humanities to bear on law. Recognizing the deep history of relations between law and humanities, the series explores their entangled pasts, probing their mutual deployment of the arts of language (grammar, dialectic, rhetoric), invention, imagination, persuasion, performance, and the ritual mystifications of power (local, national, imperial, global). While showing how resources in the humanities can be critical tools for making visible the workings of law, the series also examines how law can open new modes of thought in the humanities. Taking a deep dive into law, its imaginaries, and its material life, Elements in Legal Humanities looks at the intersections of its two domains: at grand narratives and eccentricities, at the macroscopic and the microscopic, at surfaces and depths, at the fleeting and the enduring.
The first titles in the series will be Elements on 'Mercy and Sovereignty', 'Character Making and Law Making', 'The Laws of the Sea', and 'The Devil in Legal History'. Further titles are being commissioned.
The series is edited by Professor Maksymilian Del Mar and Professor Julie Stone Peters. In addition to her post at Columbia, Professor Peters is also a Global Professorial Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.