The world of law : a treasury of great writing about and in the law, short stories, plays, essays, accounts, letters, opinions, pleas, transcripts of testimony : from Biblical times to the present / edited by Ephraim London.

v. 1. The law in literature. Susanna and the elders / the Apocrypha
The cases judged by Sancho Panza (Don Quixote) / Cervantes
The trial of Bardell v. Pickwick (the Pickwick Papers) / Charles Dickens
In chancery (Bleak House) / Charles Dickens
The Winslow boy / Terence Rattigan
The trial of the Knave of Hearts (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) / Lewis Carroll
Hippolyte's claim / Guy De Maupassant
The assassin / Guy de Maupassant
The benefits of doubt / Jack London
In the court / Anton Chekhov
Worse the worse / Anton Chekhov
Manna / John Galsworthy
Sicilian honor / Luigi Pirandello
Dreyfus in Kasrilevka / Sholom Aleichem
Trial by jury / W. S. Gilbert
Counsel for Oedipus / Frank O'Connor
Han's crime / Shiga Naoya
Crainquebille / Anatole France
The witness for the prosecution / Agatha Christie
The dog Andrew / Arthur C. Train
Mr. Havlena's verdict / Karel Čapek
Science vs. luck / Mark Twain
The dock brief / John Mortimer
The court-martial (the Caine Mutiny) / Herman Wouk
The barrister / A. A. Milne
Tomorrow / William Faulkner
How the pretty maid of Portillon convinced her judge / Honore' de Balzac
The judge Ill-judged (a Commission in Lunacy) / Honore' de Balzac
Act of God in Nevada / Mark Twain
Alan Fairford's first cause (Red- Gauntlet) / Sir Walter Scott
Monsieur Thomas / Anatole France
The farce of the worthy master, Pierre Patelin, the lawyer / Anonymous (fifteenth century)
Welcome to Aunt Kitty's / James Reid Parker
The archimandrite's niece / James Reid Parker
Strong impressions / Anton Chekhov
The blushing beginner and the bearded juryman / Théobald Mathew
The witty Judge and the bronchial usher / Théobald Mathew
The happy couple / W. Somerset Maugham
The hypotheses of failure / O. Henry
The legends of Henry Everett / Louis Auchincloss
Colonel Starbottle for the plaintiff / Bret Harte
Crime Without passion / Ben Hecht
On Judge Bridlegoose and Lord John the Loony (Gargantua and Pantagruel) / Rabelais
Mr. Justice Harbottle / Joseph Sheridan le Fanu
"Take the witness!" / Robert Benchley.

v. 2. The law as literature. Scandalous denial of justice / Morris Raphael Cohen
The trial of Dr. Adams, the first day / Sybille Bedford
The trial of Lizzie Borden (verdict in dispute) / Edgar Lustgarten
On the Nuremberg trial / Rebecca West
Testimony given at Her trial for heresy and witchcraft / Joan of Arc
Summation in the Sweet case / Clarence Darrow
Testimony given against the Marquis of Queensberry / Oscar Wilde
Apology, an account of Socrates' defense against the charge of impiety and corrupting the young / Plato
Summation in the Trial of John Francis Knapp for the Murder of Joseph White / Daniel Webster
Address to the jury at his trial for libel / Emile Zola
Cross-examination of Pigott before the Parnell Commission (Weilman's The art of cross-examination) / Sir Charles Russell
A plea for the severest penalty, upon his conviction for sedition / Gandhi
Closing address in the Nuremberg trial / Robert H. Jackson
On the entirely reasonable murder of a police constable / George Bernard Shaw
Reflections on the guillotine / Albert Camus
On the law prohibiting business on the Lord's Day; On the reasonable man; and The gramophone libel case (misleading cases in the common law) / A. P. Herbert
Of judicature / Francis Bacon
Preface to the maxims of the law / Francis Bacon
The consumers of injustice / Edmond Cahn
Dissenting opinion in United States v. Schwimmer / Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Concurring opinion in Whitney v. California / Justice Louis D. Brandeis
Fast-fish and loose-fish (Moby Dick) / Herman Melville
A letter defending the freedom to read / Henry Miller
The path of the law / Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The case of the speluncean explorers / Lon L. Fuller
On the science of the law (Gulliver's Travels) / Jonathan Swift
The nature of the judicial process, Part I / Justice Benjamin Cardozo
The crisis in the reasoned opinion (procedure and democracy) / Piero Calamandrei
Opinion and dissenting opinion in Repouille v. United States / Judge Learned Hand and Judge Jerome Frank
Opinion on Schmidt v. United States / Judge Learned Hand
Opinion and dissenting opinion in Terminiello v. Chicago / Justice William O. Douglas and Justice Robert H. Jack son
Advice to a young man interested in going into law / Felix Frankfurter
Letter to Harold Laski / Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Opinion in Buck v. Bell / Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
On lawsuits as inquiries into the truth (courts on trial) / Jerome Frank
From of experience / Montaigne
From the Life of Johnson / James Boswell
Law like love / W. H. Auden.