Introduction&MARCO WAN 1
PART Ⅰ Rereading the legal case 9
1 Reading cases in interdisciplinary studies of law and literature&ALAN DURANT 11
2 ‘I crave the law’： Salomon v Salomon， uncanny personhood and the Jews&CHRISTOPHER HUTTON 29
3 Three close-ups in search of truth： law， cinema， psychoanalysis&MARIA ARISTODEMOU 47
4 Everyday law in the court writing of Sybille Bedford&ELAINE HO 61
5 Sir William Jones and the translation of law in India&ROBERT YOUNG 80
6 The illegality of Empire： moral evasion and confusion of historians and literary critics in their reflections on the impeachment trial of Warren Hastings&ANTHONY CARTY 90
PART Ⅱ Perspectives on precedent 107
7 The making of legal cases and the idea of precedent in the common law&THANOS ZARTALOUDIS 109
8 On the edge of reason： law at the borderline&JANNY LEUNG 128
9 Stare decisis in China？ The newly enacted Guiding Case System&PING YU AND SETH GURGEL 142
10 Judging judgment in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease&KATHERINE ISOBEL BAXTER 159
PART Ⅲ Reading literature in a legal frame 173
11 The dramatic imagination and the dream of law&PAUL RAFFIELD 175
12 The intellectual - Hamlet&KENJI YOSHINO 190
13 Stare decisis， binding precedent， and Anthony Trollope’s The Eustace Diamonds&MARCO WAN 205
14 Binding precedent： Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of DrJekyll and Mr Hyde&SCOTT VEITCH 217
Index 231