Daniela Carpi ed., purchase Practising Equity, sales Addressing Law. Equity in Law and Literature. Winter, Heidelberg, 2008
The present volume stems from our previous research on The Concept of Equity: A Diachronical Assessment (2007). The essays in this new collection demonstrate how lively and active the debate on equity has been and how difficult it is to find a concluding word on this topic. In literature a new idea concerning equity is slowly being shaped. The discourse offered by literature is of an alternative kind; we are reminded of the utopian function of equity in Plato’s Republic, where it aims at transcending reality and the mimetic description of it. There is something mysterious about equity: we cannot grasp it easily in terms of rational argumentation. It is all about norm and its inversion; at the same time it is deconstructive. Thus sometimes equity appears to be beyond the sphere of reality and takes us into a mysterious and incomprehensible world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DANIELA CARPI
Introduction - JEANNE GAAKEER
Law in Context, Law, Equity, and the Realm of Human Affairs
- ERIC RABKIN
Fantasies of Equity - CRISTINA COSTANTINI
The Judicature Acts and the con-fusion of Law and Equity
- GARY WATT
The Sword of Equity - LEIF DAHLBERG
Achilles’ Foot and the Law: Legal Space(s), Striated and Smooth - IAN WARD
The Feint of Equity: The Huntingdon Case - CHIARA BATTISTI
Equity and Otherness: The Shadow of Terrorism - MARIA MIGLIAZZA
Equity and Human Rights under International Law - HEINZ ANTOR
Diversity, Cosmopolitanism and Ethics in the Age of Inter- and Transculturalism - PAUL RAFFIELD
Shakespeare’s Imaginary Constitution: Justice, Fairness and the Dramatic Representation of Law.
- PAOLA BASEOTTO
Equity in Action: The Trial and Execution of Mary Queen of Scots in Spenser’s Faerie Queene
- GIUSEPPINA RESTIVO
Equity v. Revenge in Shakespeare: re-considering The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Hamlet - REGINA M. SCHWARTZ
Justice and Law in The Merchant of Venice - RICHARD CAVE
Endings in Renaissance Comedy: Ben Jonson and Richard Brome - KLAUS STIERSTORFER
Adam Smith: Literature as Equity? - PATRIZIA NEROZZI BELLMAN
Equity on Trial: Judicial Cases in the Novels of Richardson and Fielding
- YVONNE BEZRUCKA
A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens’s Political Examination of Law, Legalized Violence, Authority, and Retributive Justice. - RÜDIGER AHRENS
Equity as Ethical Principle in the Scottish Enlightenment and in Postcolonial Literatures
- MARA LOGALDO
Crime Sublime: Literary Mercy and the Law in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood - DANIELA CARPI
Tim Parks’s Judge Savage: a Quest for Atonement - SIDIA FIORATO
Justice and Lawyers at Court: Reflections on P.D. James’ A Certain Justice - CRISTINA GATTI
The [In]equitable Quest for Language Diversity - MARINA BONDI AND DAVIDE MAZZI
The Words of Equity: an Analysis of a Corpus of Judgments
- PAOLA VETTOREL
Equality Through Language? A Matter of Inclusiveness
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