1. The force of meaning: cultural studies of law Sara L. Knox and Cristyn Davies 2. Memory and echo: pop cult, hi tech and the irony of tradition Desmond Manderson 3. Temporal horizons: On the possibilities of law and fatherhood in To Kill a Mockingbird Austin Sarat and Martha Merrill Umphrey 4. Entertaining torture, embodying law Peter J. Hutchings 5. Instrumental and gratuitous violence: The torture and death of Gul Rahman in the CIA Salt Pit Joseph Pugliese 6. Constructing 'decency': government subsidized cultural production during the culture wars Cristyn Davies 7. Weapons of sex, weapons of war: Feminisms, ethnic conflict and the rise of rape and sexual violence in public international law during the 1990s Rana Jaleel 8. Legitimating transphobia: the legal disavowal of transgender rights in prison John Nguyet Erni