This collection investigates the current state and future trajectory of the interdisciplinary field of law and literature. Editors Elizabeth S. Anker and Bernadette Meyler compile contributions from twenty-two scholars across legal and literary disciplines to assess how the field has evolved since its emergence in the 1970s and 1980s. The text argues that the intersection of these two fields remains a vital site for analyzing cultural, political, and judicial norms.

Scholars and legal theorists identify this volume as a significant update to the foundational texts of the law and literature movement. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, making it a resource primarily intended for graduate-level researchers and legal academics.