Biography
Ray Geary graduated from the University of Strathclyde in 1974. In 1977 he was admitted as a solicitor to the Law Society of Glasgow. In 1980 he was awarded the degree of LLM at the University of Glasgow. He was appointed to the post of Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast in 1979 and became a Senior Lecturer in 1996.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Law and Culture
• Welfare Law
• Clinical Law
• Criminology
• Medical Law and Ethics

Research

Medical Law, Criminology, Law and Culture.

Selected Publications

Crime, Community and Locale (2000, with David O'Mahony, Kieran McEvoy and John Morison) Aldershot: Ashgate.

"From Operational Strategy to Serving the Customer: Technology and Ethics in Welfare Law" (with Philip Leith) (2001) 15 International Journal of Law, Computers & Technology 213

" 'Born Pious, Literary and Legal': Lord Coleridge's Criticisms in Law and Literature" in Freeman and Lewis (eds), Law and Literature: Current Legal Issues Volume 2 (1999 Oxford: Oxford University Press) 463

"The Unpardonable Sin" in Morison and Bell (eds), Tall Stories? Reading Law and Literature (1996 Aldershot, Dartmouth) 83

"The Mysteries Novels of the 19th Century and the Troubles "Thriller" (with John Morison) in Greer, Dawson and Ingram (eds), 150 Years of Irish Law (1996 Dublin, Roundhall) 105

"Crime, Conflict and Counting" (with John Morison) (1989) 28 The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 9

Law and Literature
Current Legal Issues Volume 2

 

Edited by Michael Freeman and Andrew Lewis

Description

Second volume in the series whose sister publication Current Legal Problems is very well known and highly regarded Interdisciplinary with a wide range of material covering law, history, literature, and philosophy Lively case-studies that are international in breadth The most comprehensive collection on law and literature in Britain

Law and Literature , the second volume in the Current Legal Issues series, is a comprehensive and provocative treatment of an exciting new area that will stimulate and enlighten anyone interested in law as it appears in literature. Future volumes will include such subjects such as law and medicine and law and religion. Law is literature but it also appears frequently in literature. The trial itself has features in common with literature, and law and literature both require interpretation. Literature may be constrained by the law and the law of defamation or blasphemy as, for example, the Salman Rushdie affair so vividly illustrates. All of these wide-ranging topics of relating law to literature are explored in this state of the art volume written by leading thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic. Texts analysed range from drama to novels to film and musical performance and interpretation to the Bible. Trials dissected include the Eichmann and M'Naughten cases and treason and witchcraft trials. The range of subjects includes legal ethics, punishment, responsibility, colonialism, violence, and feminism.

Readership: This book will be of general interest to all Law academics and students. It will be of especial interest to scholars concerned with the relationship of Law and Literature, philosophers, historians, and critics of literature and literacy.

Contents

Editor's Preface , Michael Freeman Introduction , Anthony Julius Writing and Reading in Philosophy, Law, and Poetry , James Boyd White Interdisciplinary Legal Scholarship as Guilty Pleasure: The Case of Law and Literature , Jane B. Baron Literature's Twenty-Year Crossing into the Domain of Law: Continuing Trespass or Right of Adverse Possession , Richard H. Weisberg The Law-as-Literature Trope , Guyora Binder Per(versions) of Law in Literature , Tony Sharpe Shakespeare, the Native Community, and the Legal Imagination , Ian Ward Ibsen and the Inscription of Blame in Law , John Stanton-Ife Tess of the d'Urbervilles and the Law of Provocation , Melanie Williams Fantasies of Women as Lawmakers: Empowerment or Entrapment in Angela Carter's Bloody Chambers , Maria Aristomedou From Bette Davis to Mrs Whitehouse: Law and Literature - Theory and Practice , Michael Thomson `How can ye criticise what's plain law, man?: The Lawyer, the Novelist, and the Discourse of Authority , Marie Hockenhull Smith The Bible, Law, and Liberation: Towards a Politico-Legal Hermeneutics of the Sermon on the Mount , Adam Gearey Rivka Yoselewska on the Stand: The Structure of Legality and the Construction of Heroic memory at the Eichmann Trial , Lawrence Douglas The `Final Struggle': A Discoursal, Rhetorical, and Social Analysis of Two Closing Arguments , Jill Tomasson Goodwin Crossing the Literary Modernist Divide at Century's End: The Turn to Translation and the Invention of Identity in America's Story of Origins , Gary Minda Lawyers and Introspection , Thomas Morawetz Translation and Judicial Ethos: Some Remarks on James Boyd White's Proposal for the Harmony of the Spheres , Jeanne Gaakeer The Sovereign Self: Identity and Responsibility in Victorian England , Simon Petch Is Literature More Ethical than Law? Fitzjames Stephen and Literary Responses to the Advent of Full Legal Representation for Felons , Jan-Melissa Schramm Victorian Narrative Jurisprudence , Christine L. Krueger `Born Pious, Literary, and Legal': Lord Coleridge's Criticisms in Law and Literature , Ray Geary Defamation and Fiction , Eric Barendt Art Crimes , Anthony Julius Reading Blasphemy: The Necessity for Literary Analysis in Legal Scholarship , Tony Bradney Capturing Childhood: The Indian Child in the European Imagination , Anne McGillivray Legalizing Violence: Fanon, Romance, Colonial Law , Gary Boire Governing Bodies Tempering Tongues: Elizabeth Barton and the Politics of the Performative in Early Tudor England , Mary Polito The Guernsey Witchcraft Trials of 1617: The Case of Collette Becquet , Matthew McGuinness The Hidden Truth of Autopoiesis , William J. Witteveen What Frederick Douglass Says to Kanto, with Help from Einstein , Wai-Chee Dimock Singular and Aggregate Voices: Audiences and Authority in Law & Literature and in Law & Feminism , Judith Resnick Law as Performance , J. M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Michael Freeman, Professor of English Law, University College, London and Andrew Lewis, Senior Lecturer in Law, University College, London