Law & Literature on 'Legal Bodies'

Special Issue - Legal Bodies: Corpus/Persona/Communitas
We are pleased to offer you free access* to the latest Special issue from Law & Literature on 'Legal Bodies'. 
Law & Literature is the leading interdisciplinary law journal directed to law and the arts. This issue investigates the way literary and artistic texts interrogate the notion of 'personhood', focussing on both historical and contemporary (re-) conceptualizations of the notion within the domain of law.
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Bryony Goodwin
Routledge Law

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