Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Fables of the Law, a Literary Perspective / Carpi, Daniela -- Fabulous Law: Legal Fables / Leiboff, Marett -- Part I: Fabulising Law -- The Wondrous (Baroque) Gender Revolution, or the Rise and Fall of the Empire of Fairies / Romero, Luis Gómez -- The Haunting Memory of Law: Mystic Fables, Uncanny Presences and Normative Spectrality / Costantini, Cristina -- Political Sublime: Heterodoxy and Jurisdiction at the Origin of Modernity / Monateri, Pier Giuseppe -- Mystical Bodies and Bodies of Law: On Juridical Theology and the (Re)Foundations of the West / Baldissone, Riccardo -- Part II: Contemporary Fables -- Narrators of Fables or Framers of the Constitution? The Acallam na Senórach Beyond Time, Place, and Law / Nicolini, Matteo -- Playing with Conventions and Traditions: The Modern Legal Fairy Tale / Pichler, Doris -- The Good Old Rule, the Catspaw and a Two-Headed Baby / Leiboff, Marett -- Ethics and Law at Play on the Football Pitch / Rossi, Giuseppe / Carbone, Paola -- Earth Jurisprudence and the Myth of Gaia / Adami, Valentina -- Part III: Fables of Family -- Archetypes and Family Models / Cordiano, Alessandra -- Divorce and the Failure of Law in Dickens's Hard Times / Soccio, Anna Enrichetta -- Bluebeard and the Polygamous Family / Baruffi, Maria Caterina -- Part IV: Law, Myth and Magic -- Fables of the Holocaust: Hansel and Gretel / Carpi, Daniela -- Let the Right Law In: True Blood, the Twilight Saga and The Passage as Lex |