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12 Law & Human. 1 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/lawhuman12 and id is 1 raw text is: LAW AND HUMANITIES, 2018 Routledae VOL. 12, NO. 1, 1-4 .-pled https://doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2018.1465243 Taylor &Francis Group Editorial It is a pleasure to present the latest issue of Law and Humanities in which the articles treat subjects ranging across fifteenth-century paintings, an eighteenth- century French novel, a twentieth-century translation of an eighteenth-century Chinese detective novel, a twenty-first-century Spanish film, and Netflix 'true crime' dramas. This issue also features an article-length symposium response to a recent book on the rhetoric of medical law with a particular focus on the NHS, as well as an article, in our occasional educational section, that discusses rhetoric teaching with reference to a dedicated law school module in the art of advocacy. This issue also carries two book reviews, one concerning the relation- ship between lawyers and theatre in late sixteenth-century London and the other addressing justice as depicted in the superhero genre of the comic-strip. It might seem somewhat surprising that a journal bound to the subject of law has such a latitude and licence to wander so widely, but it is the very solidity and weight of the legal anchor that permits the ship to range so freely from century to century and subject matter to subject matter. If the connections between the articles are not easily seen at the surface, deeper strands can be dis- cerned that lead down to the legal anchor lying at the bottom of it all. Rhetoric, story and imagination are just three of those strands. The first article in the current issue is 'Embodying Law in Diderot's La Religieuse' by Adam Schoene of the Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University. Schoene contends that Diderot's dramatic and fictional emphasis on bodily gesture in this novel serves to illuminate his legal conceptions. He argues that the body of Diderot's fictional Suzanne Simonin, who was forced to become a nun,'incarnates the law, as she transforms the silence of the convent into a fermentative political space, sparking our reactions against despotism through her inscription of injustice'. The result is that 'Diderot's account becomes an embodied performance exceeding words, demon- strating the powerful potential for Suzanne's story to reverberate beyond the walls of the convent and into the law itself. Next comes 'Private Pain versus Public Shame: Gonz~lez Sinde's Female Lawyer in La suerte dormida/Sleeping Luck (2003)' by Anja Louis, a Reader in Languages and Cultures at Sheffield Hallam University. Her article analyses the representation of a female lawyer in the film La Suerte Dormida (Sleeping Luck) (dir: Angeles Gonz~lez Sinde, 2003) whose personal tragedy encourages her to become a heroine lawyer for the socially disadvantaged. In Louis's words, it 'explores a female filmmaker's account of a woman lawyer fighting for a lost cause and exam- ines in what way the public/private, law/justice and reason/emotion dichotomies are played out in her public performance and private life'. Louis explains that she uses Carl Plantinga's 0 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

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