Law and literature: a misunderstood relation

Abstract

In this century the dominant trend in academic and professional communities has been toward ever-increasing specialization.The law has not been immune to the process.As if in reaction to the consequent narrowing of focus, various legal scholars in the past two decades have attempted to bring to bear upon the study of law the insights afforded by different disciplines.Perhaps the most widelyadvertised of these crossover efforts is the politically conservative law and economics movement, headed by Richard A. Posner, a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.'Judge Posner has now added his name and a title to the rapidlyexpanding bibliography of works published in the law and literature field.In Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relation, he notes that, while the writings of Wigmore, Cardozo, and others have touched on the relationship between the literary and the legal, the academic enterprise known as law and literature did not assume a separate identity until 1973

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