Julie Stone Peters is the H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, Affiliated Faculty at Columbia Law School, and a Global Professorial Fellow at Queen Mary University School of Law. Her most recent books are Law as Performance (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Staging Witchcraft Before the Law (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Her more public-facing essays have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, London Review of Books, Slate, The Village Voice, and elsewhere.
Julie Stone Peters
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2 Angry Men: On Eastwood, Trump, and the Law
In attacking law without attacking the real abuses of the criminal justice system, Juror #2 is a groundless assault on the only institution that can save us from all-out authoritarian rule.
Law’s Force, Law’s Farce
Books about law are often utilitarian. But perhaps sometimes we should embrace sublime uselessness.
