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This volume is a Nordic contribution to research on law and humanities. It treats the legal culture of the Nordic countries through intensive analyses of canonical Nordic artworks. Law and justice have always been important issues in Nordic literature, film and theater from the Icelandic sagas through Ludvig Holberg and Henrik Ibsen to Lars Noréns theatre and Lars von Trier's Dogme films of today. This book strives to answer two fundamental questions: Is there a special Nordic justice? And what does the legal and literary/aesthetic culture of the North mean for the concept of law and justice and for the understanding of the interdisciplinary exchange of law and humanities? The concept of law and literature as a research area was originally developed in countries of common law. This book investigates law and humanities from a different legal tradition, and contributes thus both to the discussion of the general and the comparative studies of law and humanities.

This article presents an introduction to the field of law and literature in Denmark and a legal and literary reading of one of the Western world's first crime stories, \"The Pastor of Vejlbye,\" written by the Danish writer Steen Steensen Blicher in 1829. This is a story based on a true case of a possible miscarriage of justice from the seventeenth century. The reading focuses on Blicher's story, the role of the judge, the nature of false confessions, the issue of the death penalty, and the whole narrative and diaristic setting that establishes a strong tension between the epic self-explanation of the pastor and the weak and hesitant diaristic prose of the judge.

This article investigates the political function of human rights in 16 th -century Spain just after the conquest of America. It claims that the study of this period of early globalization is relevant for an understanding of the function of human rights discourses today, at the \"end\" of globalization. Historically speaking, human rights are closely connected with globalization, but at the same time, they raise the question about the foundation of globalization: is there a universal community or only economic and political power-relations? This article argues that the political use of human rights discourses is split down the middle: it serves both as a critique of power and as an extension of power, and the disclosure of this split helps us understand the inner politics of human rights. The article discusses the trial in Valladolid in 1550 when the rights of the barbarian Indians of America were put on trial. It focuses mainly on the arguments made by Bartolomé de las Casas and on the reasons why the King allowed las Casas' fierce critique of the conquest to be published in a period of otherwise severe censorship. This article is inspired by Etienne Balibar's idea of \"politics of universalism,\" \"political autonomy,\" and \"equaliberty.\" Karen-Margrethe L. Simonsen, Doctor Phil., Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Department of Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University, Director of the Research Unit, Humanistic Studies of Human Rights. Publications: Law and Justice in Literature, Film and Theatre. Nordic Perspectives on Law and Humanities, Ed. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, Series: Law and Literature, 2013, Law and Literature. Interdisciplinary Readings and Perspectives, (ed. with. Ditlev Tamm) Copenhagen: DJØF Publishing House, 2010, \"Towards a New Europe? On Emergent and Transcultural Literary Histories\" in Cosmopolitanism as related to European literature, ed. Theo D'Haen and César Domínguez, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi Press, forthcoming 2013, \"Global Panopticism. On the Eye of Power in Modern Surveillance Society and Post-Orwellian Self-Surveillance and Sousveillance-Strategies in Modern Art\" in \"\"Visualizing Law and Authority. Essays on Legal Aesthetics\",\" ed. Leif Dahlberg in the series Law and Literature, De Gruyter, forthcoming 2012, \"To See and not to See: On the Eye of Power in Modern Surveillance Societies and Post-Orwellian Selfsurveillance Strategies in Tracking Transience by Hasan Elahi\" Pólemos. Rivista semestrale di diritto, politica e cultura, vol. 1, 2011, p. 47-60, \"Holocaust Literature and the Shaping of European Identity after the Second World War: The Case of Jorge Semprún\".\" European Identity and the Second World War, edited by M. Spiering and M.J. Wintle, London: Macmillan/Palgrave, 2011, p. 256--278.

In this article, I will discuss the concept of narration, its role within a legal context, and the relation between narration and anti-narration in Robert Musil's modernist experiment, . I will argue that, through the portrayal of Moosbrugger, Musil's aim is to show that the rationality of the legal system is based on false narrations, which prevent us from understanding living reality. I will further discuss the interest of the Moosbrugger case within the novel, and discuss whether Moosbrugger is to be seen as a Dionysian hero or a possibilitist. In the final section, I will argue that Moosbrugger can be seen as a , as defined by Giorgio Agamben, and that it is due to this position that he is able to question our presuppositions about the criminal.