Notes from the Editor

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“Essentially Contested”: Law, Literature, Postcoloniality

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Sui Generis: Aboriginal Title and the State of Exception

From Colonialism to Multiculturalism? Totem Poles, Tourism and National Identity in Vancouver’s Stanley Park

“What is an Indian?”: Identity Politics in United States Federal Indian Law and American Indian Literatures

Undignified Details: The Colonial Subject of Law

Paul Patton

Becoming-Animal and Pure Life in Coetzee’s Disgrace

Manav Ratti

Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost and the Aestheticization of Human Rights

Valerie Karno

Sovereignty and the Cinematic Image: Gary Snyder, The Civil Rights Act of 1968, and the Witnessing of Jurisdiction

Isobel M. Findlay

“From Many Peoples, Strength”: Towards a Postcolonial Law and Literature

Jason P. Gottlieb

189 Power Politics and International Public Law: Lessons from Benito Cereno

Peter Fitzpatrick

Symbolic Violence: Law, Literature, Interpretation—An Afterword

Islam in Britain, 1558–1685 and Turks, Moors and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery. (Jim Ellis)

The Picturesque and the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape. (Klay Dyer)

Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage: From Shakespeare to Webster. (Karen Walker)

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Tricks with a Glass: Writing Ethnicity in Canada. (Guy Beauregard)