Peter Goodrich, Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law and Visiting Professor in Social Science at NYU Abu Dhabi, is an ardent advocate of argute alliterations and the habile silent ‘p’, as in raspberry and psittacist, ptomaine, psithurism, and rhubarb. He is the author, recently and most compositely, of Advanced Introduction to Law and Literature (Edward Elgar), of Judicial Uses of Images: Vision in Decision (Oxford University Press), and also co-editor of Performing Law (Cambridge University Press).Shaun McVeigh is Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne School of Law. His current work is on the continuing influence of colonial legal inheritance and lawful existence in the South.

• Chapter 1: Professing Law: An ExcursusChapter 2: Conscience is the Essence of the Scholar’s OfficeChapter 3: Ministerial Office in Post-Reformation English ThoughtChapter 4: Conducting OfficeChapter 5: Dante, Law, and the Office of the JuristChapter 6: Office as Aesthetic ProtocolChapter 7: Precarious Procurators: Kafka’s Writing Scenes and the Vicariousness of OfficeChapter 8: “A Disgrace to the Collar and Divine Office”: Ministry, Poetry, and the Law of BearingChapter 9: The Play of Office and InstitutionChapter 10: Calling out Homphonia: A Word in the Ear of the JawistChapter 11: The Office of ReviewerChapter 12: The Exercise of Corporate OfficeChapter 13: Constancy of Office: A Study of Jurists and Writers in time of conflict