The theme arises from the legal-academic movement "Law and Literature". This newly developed field should aim at two major goals, first, to investigate the meaning of law in a social context by questioning how the characters appearing in literary works understand and behave themselves to the law (law in literature), and second, to find out a theoretical solution of the methodological question whether and to what extent the legal text can be interpreted objectively in comparison with the question how literary works should be interpreted (law as literature). The subject of justice and injustice has been covered not only in treatises of law and philosophy, but also in many works of literature: On the one hand, poets and writers have been outraged at the social conditions of their time. On the other hand, some of them have also contributed fundamental reflections on the idea of justice itself.

Research in a newly developed field New theoretical framework and new empirical studies The idea of justice in a new context

Autorentext
Hiroshi Kabashima is professor of jurisprudence in the School of Law at Tohoku University, Japan.
Shing-I Liu is professor in the School of Law at National Taipei University, Taiwan.
Christoph Luetge is professor of business ethics at Technical University of Munich, Germany.
Aurelio de Prada García is professor of philosophy of law at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid, Spain.

Inhalt
What justice? Things as they are.- From Brave New World to the Island : Huxley's tales about the Alternatives to Law?.- Democracy, Law, Judges and Solitude Some reflections from Walden and the Lake Isle of Innisfree".- Romanticism and Political Violence.- Legal Poetics for Legal Thoughts.- Widerstand im Namen der Gerechtigkeit.- A Penny for Your Thoughts: The Conceptions of Justice in the Literature of Cora Coralina.- The Idea of the Honest Businessman in Literature.- Taming the Anger : One Jurisprudential Reading of Two Greek Dramas.- Der Sinn des Rechtsgedankens.- The Concept of Gewalt in Walter Benjamin's Philosophy of Law.- The Heads of Justice.- Justice without Formulas. Interpretations of Polish Nobels Prize Winners in the 20th Centry.- Legal reasoning in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.- Kafka und Schwejk Die Karikatur des modernen Rechtssystems und das Gefühl der Ungerechtigkeit.