''Law and Literature'', formerly ''Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature'', is a law

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of the Cardozo Law School founded in 1988. The managing editor is Professor Peter Goodrich. First published in 1989 as a biannual titled ''Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature'', with its first issue devoted to

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's '' Billy Budd, Sailor'',''Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature'', Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1989). this journal shifted to a triannual format in 2002. First published by the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and then by

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, it is one of the few journals in the country entirely focused on the interdisciplinary movement known as

law and literature The law and literature movement focuses on connections between law and literature. This field has roots in two developments in the intellectual history of law—first, the growing doubt about whether law in isolation is a source of value and mean ...

. Issues in

private law Private law is that part of a legal system that governs interactions between individual persons. It is distinguished from public law, which deals with relationships between both natural and artificial persons (i.e., organizations) and the st ...

and

public law Public law is the part of law that governs relations and affairs between legal persons and a government, between different institutions within a state, between different branches of governments, as well as relationships between persons that ...

, restrictions on creative expression, gender and

racial bias Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one Race (human categorization), race or ethnicity over another. It may also me ...

hermeneutics Hermeneutics () is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts. As necessary, hermeneutics may include the art of understanding and communication. ...

(interpretive methodologies), and legal themes in works of literature are among the journal's regular topics.

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