Table of Contents
Chapter 1;
Legal Imagination in Trouble Times: An Introduction;
Part One - Imagination, Law, and History: Framing the Future;
Chapter 2;
The Progress of Legal Education in England;
Chapter 3;
The Dragon in the Cave: Fleta as a Legal Imagining of Early English Common Law;
Chapter 4;
The Apotheosis of King Charles I;
Part Two - The Courts and the Legal Imagination;
Chapter 5;
Pathologies of Imagination and Legitimacy of Judicial Decision Making;
Chapter 6;
Law and Belief: The Reality of Judicial Interpretation;
Chapter 7;
Legal Imagination or an Extra-Legal Hoax: On Storytelling, Friends of the Court and Crossing Legal Boundaries in the US Supreme Court;
Part Three - Thought, Stylistics and Discourse;
Chapter 8;
The French Revolution and the Programmatic Imagination: Hilary Mantel on Law, Politics, and Misery;
Chapter 9;
Internal Coherence and the Possibility of Judicial Integrity;
Chapter 10;
Legal Humanism: ‘Stylistic Imagination’ and the Making of Legal Traditions;
Part Four - The Future of the Legal Imagination
Chapter 11;
Depicting the End of the American Frontier: Some Thoughts on Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove Series;
Chapter 12;
Coleridge’s Dystopia and the Optics of Law;
Chapter 13;
Against the Failure of the Legal Imagination. Literary Narratives, Brexit and the Sort of the Anglo-British Constitution;