Sir Frederick Pollock wrote that "English-speaking lawyers.have specialised the name of Equity." It is typical for legal texts on the law of equity to acknowledge the diverse ways in which the word "equity" is used and then to focus on the legal sense of the word to the exclusion of all others. There may be a professional responsibility on writers to do just that. If so, there is a counterpart responsibility to read the law imaginatively, and to read what non-lawyers have said of equity with an open mind. This book is an exploration of the meaning of equity as artists and thinkers have...