Introduction : Shakespeare and the law / Bradin Cormack, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Richard Strier
Two differences between law and literature / Daniel Brudney
Decision, possession : the time of law in The winter's tale and the sonnets / Bradin Cormack
"Lively evidence" : legal inquiry and the evidentia of Shakespearean drama / Lorna Hutson
Interpreting statute in Measure for measure / Constance Jordan
Vengeance, complicity, and criminal law in Othello / Richard H. McAdams
Law and commerce in The merchant of Venice / Richard A. Posner
Opinion of Fried, J., concurring in the judgment / Charles Fried
Equity in Measure for measure / David Bevington
Shakespeare and legal systems : the better the worse (but not vice versa) / Richard Strier
Liquid fortification and the law in King Lear / Kathy Eden
Saying in The merchant of Venice / Stanley Cavell
A British people : Cymbeline and the Anglo-Scottish union issue / Marie Theresa O'Connor
"Romans, countrymen, and lovers" : political love and the rule of law in Julius Caesar / Martha C. Nussbaum
A lesson from Shakespeare to the modern judge on law, disobedience, justification, and mercy / Diane P. Wood
Shakespeare's laws : a justice, a judge, a philosopher, and an English professor.