Language, literature, and the law
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- “Billy Budd:
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in Law and Literature 1 (1989): 109-21. Abstract.
- “Judging Law and
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- “The Law of Signatures.”
Law and Aesthetics. Ed. Roberta
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- “Littera scripta manet:
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