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Law's Metaphors: Interrogating Languages of Law, Justice and Legitimacy presents a series of essays that reveal how metaphors for terms relating to the theory and practice of law are utilized in legal texts, literary works, and in our popular imagination. Represents an innovative approach to interdisciplinary legal scholarship Features new developments in theorizing law's relations with language, society, and culture Includes contributions from European and North American scholars across several relevant disciplines Reveals the prevalence and power of the use of metaphors in the legal profession and in the popular imagination