Gary Watt is Professor in the School of Law, University of Warwick. He is a National Teaching Fellow, having been named national 'Law Teacher of the Year' (2009). His rhetoric workshops for the Royal Shakespeare Company informed his book Shakespeare's Acts of Will (The Arden Shakespeare) and the present book arises from the award of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2019-2022). He is general editor of Bloomsbury's A Cultural History of Law and founding co-editor of the journal Law and Humanities.

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• Part I. The Making Sense: 1. The making sense – introduction; 2. Invention, creation, production; 3. Artefaction – making things; Part II. The Truth Factory: 4. The truth factory – crafting fact and law; 5. Making sex change: legal engendering of trans people; 6. Making faces, performing persons; Part III. The Acting President: 7. The acting president; 8. Political confection – making a meal of it; 9. State building; Part IV. Masses, Media, and Popular Judgment: 10. Co-production and populism; 11. Faking news; 12. Making mistakes – trial by twitter and cancel culture; Index.

Gary Watt is Professor in the School of Law, University of Warwick. He is a National Teaching Fellow, having been named national 'Law Teacher of the Year' (2009). His rhetoric workshops for the Royal Shakespeare Company informed his book Shakespeare's Acts of Will (The Arden Shakespeare) and the present book arises from the award of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2019-2022). He is general editor of Bloomsbury's A Cultural History of Law and founding co-editor of the journal Law and Humanities.

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• Part I. The Making Sense: 1. The making sense – introduction; 2. Invention, creation, production; 3. Artefaction – making things; Part II. The Truth Factory: 4. The truth factory – crafting fact and law; 5. Making sex change: legal engendering of trans people; 6. Making faces, performing persons; Part III. The Acting President: 7. The acting president; 8. Political confection – making a meal of it; 9. State building; Part IV. Masses, Media, and Popular Judgment: 10. Co-production and populism; 11. Faking news; 12. Making mistakes – trial by twitter and cancel culture; Index.