Cannons and Codes

Alison L. LaCroix is Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law and an Associate Member of the Department of History at the University of Chicago.Jonathan S. Masur is the John P. Wilson Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Law School and the Philosophy Department at the University of ChicagoLaura Weinrib is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.Laura Weinrib is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

It is a volume that initially gives the impression of intervening in the center of a very specific, even somewhat obscure, Venn diagram: law, literature, and war. That nexus, however, proves to be surprisingly capacious, wide-ranging, and fluid, unsettling the terms that structure the diagram in the first place.

• Introduction, Alison L. LaCroix, Jonathan S. Masur, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Laura Weinrib Chapter 1: Law, Literature, and War: A Plenary Panelm with Justice, Stephen G. Breyer, Judge Diane P. Wood, Paul Woodruff, and Martha C. Nussbaum PART I: FORMING A NATION THROUGH WAR'S CRUCIBLE Chapter 2: Law and War in the New World: The Last of the Mohicans, The Spy, and The Pioneers, Douglas Baird Chapter 3: New Light on the Trial of Billy Budd, Richard H. McAdams and Jacob I. Corré Chapter 4: Two Humanitarianisms in Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," John Fabian Witt Chapter 5: Law and its Limits in Albion Tourgée's Bricks without Straw, Kate Masur PART II: THE TWO GREAT WARS Chapter 6: Trenches, Cadences, and Faces: Social Connection and Emotional Expression in the Great War, Nancy Sherman Chapter 7: Crucified by the War Machine: Britten's War Requiem and the Hope of Postwar Resurrection, Martha C. Nussbaum Chapter 8: Undivided Loyalty: The Problem of Allegiance in the Literature of War, Alison L. LaCroix and William A. Birdthistle Chapter 9: Law and Legitimacy in A Farewell to Arms, Laura Weinrib Chapter 10: Lawmaking, Bilateral Rules, and a Debunking of Catch-22, Saul Levmore Chapter 11: Catch-22 and the Law of Large Organizations, Jonathan S. Masur PART III: AFTERWARD Chapter 12: Sympathizing with Both Sides: Racism and American Intervention in Vietnam, Paul Woodruff Chapter 13: Paul Beatty, the Rhetoric of War, and the Selling Out of Civil Rights, Elizabeth Anker Chapter 14: How War Makes (and Unmakes) the Democratic State: Reading The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Exit West In A Populism Age, Aziz Z. Huq Chapter 15: Black Radicalism, Autobiography, and Prisoners of War, Tommie Shelby