Law and Imagination in Troubled Times - 9780367493448

Taylor & Francis

Law and Imagination in Troubled TimesA Legal and Literary Discourse\nAuthor(s): Richard Mullender, Matteo Nicolini, Thomas D.C. Bennett, Emilia Mickiewicz\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367493448, 978-0367493448\nSynopsis\nThis collection focuses on how troubled times impact upon the law, the body politic, and the complex interrelationship among them. It centres on how they engage in a dialogue with the imagination and literature, thus triggering an emergent (but thus far underdeveloped) field concerning the legal imagination.\n\nLegal change necessitates a close examination of the historical, cultural, social, and economic variables that promote and affect such change. This requires us to attend to the variety of non-legal variables that percolate throughout the legal system. The collection probes the transatlantic constitution and focuses attention on imagination in a common law context that seems to foster .