Research Context
Building on the American law and literature movement, this work contributes to the emerging European interdisciplinary field. Supported by the German Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1385 'Law and Literature', this research develops a contrastive interdisciplinary method focusing on law in literature.
Methodological Innovation
Theoretical Foundation
The research examines methodological concepts of interdisciplinarity and counterfactuality, alongside specific textual approaches including discourse analysis and hermeneutics. Common ground between legal and literary studies includes:
- Written text as shared working basis
- Hermeneutics as analytical tool
- Discourse analysis methodology
Methodology Process
Legal discourse from literary texts
With real-world legal texts
Degree of correspondence
International Scope
Comprehensive overview of heterogeneous research approaches across European jurisdictions:
- Italy: Classical law and literature tradition
- France: Droit et littérature movement
- Belgium: Multilingual approaches
- Germany: Recht und Literatur studies
Case Studies: Contemporary Literature
French anti-terror law
Albanian Kanun customary law
Talmudic law
Corsican feudal vendetta law
German asylum law
Research Contribution
This work addresses underexplored areas of law in interdisciplinary research, providing a methodological foundation for the further development of the law and literature field through the systematic application of legal counterfactual analysis.