<i>’A master stylist and storyteller, Peter Goodrich introduces Law and Literature as jurisliterature, matterphor, and pataphysics - all terms his introduction proceeds to exuberantly unpack to the reader’s delight. Goodrich traces Law and Literature’s history as a continuous derailing of so-called pure law. This occurs in law’s earliest quasi-religious inscriptions of its sanctity. It continues in law’s present confrontations with new media, posthumanism, and trans identities. Law has always attempted to tame its narrativity, affective and imagistic qualities, and deep inventedness, while nonetheless alluding to canonical literary texts to shore up its legitimacy and argue for the universal validity of its decisions. Goodrich shows that Law has always invented. Poethical decisions and jurisliterary texts demonstrate the allegorical force of the literary that work within law, if in still unacknowledged ways. The Advanced Introduction represents an extended argument for jurists to engage with literary and visual studies, and affect and metaphor theory to move their juridical work into the future.'</i>

- - Greta Olson, University of Giessen, Germany,

<i>’Peter Goodrich manages to entangle the copulatives that link law and/as/is/in/ literature, revealing the labyrinthine threads of verbal DNA that make law an art, a medium, and a passion. A wild ride from ancient jurisprudence written in stone to contemporary media, his text will be studied as long as lawyers are writers and readers, and as long as writers and readers seek truth, justice, and a sense of play. Who knew that law and literature could be such fun!’</i>

- - W.J.T Mitchell, University of Chicago, US,