Poetry of the Law: From Chaucer to the Present

Poetry of the Law, the first serious anthology of law-related poetry published ion the United States, reveals the richness of poetry about the law, uniting two disparately perceived subjects. Whether set in courtrooms, lawyers' office, or judges' chambers; peopled with attorneys, the imprisoned, judges, jurors, and law enforcement officers; based on real events or exploring the complexity of abstract legal ideas; these 100 poems from the 1300s to the present collected by David Kader and Michael Stanford range from witty to wry, sad to celebratory, and funny to infuriating in their treatment of the law.