This comprehensive and provocative second volume of a new series entitled `Current Legal Issues' shows that although law is literature, it also features in literature such as Shakespeare, Dickens, and Hardy. Texts analyzed range from drama to novels to film and musical performance and interpretation to the Bible. It is to be published each Spring as a sister volume to `Current Legal Problems'.About the Author: Michael Freeman is Editor in Chief of Current Legal Publications and Editor of Current Legal Problems, and Professor of English Law at University College, London. Andrew D.E. Lewis is Associate Editor of Current Legal Publications and General Editor of Current Legal Issues, and Senior Lecturer in Law at University College, London