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Introduction / Alison LaCroix, Jonathan S. Masur, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Laura Weinrib -- Law, literature, and war : a plenary panel with Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Judge Diane P. Wood, Paul Woodruff, and Martha C. Nussbaum -- Forming a nation through war's crucible. Law and war in the New World : The last of the Mohicans, The spy and The pioneers / Douglas Baird -- New light on the trial of Billy Budd / Richard H. McAdams and Jacob I. Corre -- Two humanitarianisms in Ambrose Bierce's "An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" / John Fabian Witt -- Law and its limits in Albion Tourgée's Bricks without straw / Kate Masur -- The two Great Wars. Trenches, cadences, and faces : social connection and emotional expression in the Great War / Nancy Sherman -- Crucified by the war machine : Britten's War requiem and the hope of postwar resurrection / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Undivided loyalty : the problem of allegiance in the literature of war / Alison LaCroix and William Birdthistle -- Law and legitimacy in A farewell to arms / Laura Weinrib -- Lawmaking, bilateral rules, and a debunking of Catch-22 / Saul Levmore -- Catch-22 and the law of large organizations / Jonathan S. Masur -- Law and literature after the Pacific War : Endo Shusaku's The sea and the poison / Tom Ginsburg -- Afterward. Sympathizing with both sides : racism and American intervention in Vietnam / Paul Woodruff -- Paul Beatty, the rhetoric of war, and the selling out of civil rights / Elizabeth Anker -- How war makes (and unmakes) the democratic state : reading The reluctant fundamentalist and Exit west in a populism age / Aziz Z. Huq -- Black radicalism, autobiography, and prisoners of war / Tommie Shelby. "War often appears to be definitionally outside the realm of structures such as law and literature. When we speak of war, we often understand it as incapable of being rendered into rules or words. Lawyers struggle to fit the horrors of the battlefield, the torture chamber, or the makeshift hospital filled with wounded and dying civilians into the framework of legible rules and shared understandings that law assumes and demands. In the West's centuries-long effort to construct a formal law of war, the imperative has been to acknowledge the inhumanity of war while resisting the conclusion that it need therefore be without law. Writers, in contrast, seek to find the human within war - an individual story, perhaps even a moment of comprehension. Law and literature might in this way be said to share imperialist tendencies where war is concerned: toward extending their dominion to contain what might be uncontainable. This volume on war is the sixth in the University of Chicago Law School's law and literature series. The papers are intended to address the many ways in which war affects human society and the many groups of people whose lives are affected by war. Some of the papers concern the lives of soldiers; others focus on civilians living in war zones who are caught up in the conflict; still others address themselves to the home front, far from the theatre of war. By collecting such diverse perspectives within one volume, we hope to examine how literature has reflected the totalizing nature of war and the ways in which it distorts law across domains"--
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