The past few decades in legal and literary studies have challenged the boundaries raised by the
different concepts of law and literature espoused by a great variety of theorists. Law's
traditionally assumed disciplinary autonomy has been challenged by those who have pursued
interdisciplinary methods of research. In particular the concept of the sublime has moved out
of the strictly philosophical and literary fields and crossed the borders between disciplines
finding an application also in the juridical field. On one hand this volume proposes that the
ethical aspect involved in the legal sublime is to contain the arrogance of the law. On the
other hand the volume draws attention to the and of interdisciplinary literary-legal studies
and offers new daring comparisons between philosophical fields and between apparently distant
historical periods.
