Product Description: Fifty years after the release of the film version of Harper Lee's acclaimed novel To Kill a Mockingbird, this collection of original essays takes a fresh look at a classic text in legal scholarship. The contributors revisit and examine Atticus, Scout, and Jem Finch, their community, and the events that occur there through the interdisciplinary lens of law and humanities scholarship...read more

Product Description: This volume brings into view the dialogic relation between trials and culture. The essays trace the paths of cultural stories as they circulate in and through trial settings, examine how trials emerge out of particular cultural contexts and moments, and suggest ways in which trials themselves circulate and signify in culture...read more

Product Description: The study of catastrophe is a growth industry. Today, cosmologists scan the heavens for asteroids of the kind that smashed into earth some ninety million years ago, leading to the swift extinction of the dinosaurs. Climatologists create elaborate models of the chaotic weather and vast flooding that will result from the continued buildup of greenhouse gases in the planet's atmosphere...read more