The emergence of an interdisciplinary study of law and literature is one of the most exciting theoretical developments currently taking place in North America and Britain. Ian Ward explores the educative ambitions of the law and literature movement, and explores the law in key areas of literature from Shakespeare to Umberto Eco to Beatrix Potter, from feminist literature to children's literature to the modern novel. This original book defines the developing state of law and literature studies, and demonstrates how the theory of law and literature can illuminate the literary text.

The English Constitution addresses two burning contemporary and complementary questions; one regarding the so-called English -question-, the changing identities of England and English-ness, and a second regarding the changing shape of the Anglo-British constitution. It is suggested that there are both internal and external pressures that are driving the reformation of our constitutional order. There are internal pressures of decay, even corruption, and popular apathy, and there are external pressures brought to bear by the geopolitical challenges of the new world order and the new Europe. The...

Ian Ward places contemporary political and jurisprudential responses to terrorism within a broader literary, cultural and historical context.

Bobby Blah Blah talks too much. But when Bobby and his gang go fishing one day in Sniggery Woods strange things begin to happen in the woods when it goes dark - The aliens have landed!! What do they want? Why are they here ? Bobby Blah Blah and his gang try to solve the mystery. But will they able to ? More importantly will they be able to get the aliens safely home!

Introduction to Critical Legal Theory provides an accessible introduction to the study of law and legal theory. It covers all the seminal movements in classical, modern and postmodern legal thought, engaging the reader with the ideas of jurists as diverse as Aristotle, Hobbes and Kant, Marx, Foucault and Dworkin. At the same time, it impresses the interdisciplinary nature of critical legal thought, introducing the reader to the philosophy, the economics and the politics of law.

This new edition focuses even more intently upon the narrative aspect of critical legal thinking...