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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. Edited By Alison L. Lacroix, Jonathan S. Masur, Martha C. Nussbaum, And Laura Weinrib. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.