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Dear Aidel Members, I am glad to share with you the announcement here below.

The New American Studies Journal: A Forum (U. of Göttingen), announces the publication of its Vol. 73: Law, Literature, and the Idea of Justice. The issue was edited by Andrew Majeske (John Jay College (CUNY)), and features essays by Amartya Sen and George Anastaplo, and several articles and other matter related to them and their work. The issue also contains law and literature essays by Brook Thomas, James McBride, Dale Barleben, as well as an exchange between Greta Olson and Andrew Majeske regarding Olson’s new book From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect (Oxford UP, 2022)(Majeske’s review of Olson’s book precedes the exchange). The table of contents for the issue follows below, and contains links both to the issue and to the individual essays and other matter. The journal is open access.

Vol. 73 (2022): Law, Literature, and the Idea of Justice

Published: 2022-12-22

INTRODUCTION

• The Idea of Justice in Climates of Change

ANDREW MAJESKE


AMARTYA SEN, GEORGE ANASTAPLO & THE IDEA OF JUSTICE

• Law and Ideas of Justice

AMARTYA SEN

• Justice and Community, Ancient and Modern

GEORGE ANASTAPLO

• Amartya Sen & George Anastaplo on Literature, Law, and the Idea of Justice

ANDREW MAJESKE

• Amartya Sen on Economics and PhilosophyAn Introduction

KOTARO SUZUMURA

• In re Anastaplo Revisited - A Half Century Later

JED S. RAKOFF

• Letter of Miriam Redleaf (nee Anastaplo) about her father, George Anastaplo

MIRIAM REDLEAF

• Professor George Anastaplo: A Remembrance

ANDREW MAJESKE


LAW AND LITERATURE IN TEXT AND CONTEXT

• Defenders of Racial JusticeThe Law and Literature Partnership of Albion W. Tourgée and Samuel F. Phillips 

BROOK THOMAS

• Walter Benjamin’s Critique of ViolenceThe State, Police Violence, and Black Lives Matter

JAMES MCBRIDE

• Orwell, Jones and the New York Times:Conversations Shaping the Fundamental Rights of Privacy

DALE BARLEBEN

• Review of Greta Olson’s From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect Followed By a Question and Answer Exchange with Greta Olson

ANDREW MAJESKE, GRETA OLSON

• Cross/Borders: The Transcultural Poet as Counterwitness in Anthony Cody’s Borderland Apocrypha

MATTHEW MORAN

• Bomb and Climate Change in Fact and Fiction

MARIANNA TORGOVNICK



POETRY

• Birthright

JOSHUA WEINER

• Ode to Shamash, or on The Problem of Absolutism in the Case of the Law

JAMES DOWTHWAITE

• The Ruins of Nostalgia

DONNA STONECIPHER

• The Horses of Xian

DAVE SMITH


OCCASIONAL PAPERS

• Francis Augustus Silva - A Life

JORGE C. PEREIRA

• Review of Susanne Rohr, Von Grauen und Glamour: Repräsentationen des Holocaust in den USA und Deutschland

HEINZ ICKSTADT