Title
Wigmore's Shadow
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2006
Keywords
John Wigmore, Legal fiction, Literary fiction
Disciplines
English Language and Literature | Fiction | Law
Abstract
Riles relates how John H. Wigmore, professor and Dean of the Northwestern Law School, fanned her interest in legal and literary fiction. Wigmore provided dozens of examples of legal fictions bundled together in the singular, and seemingly straightforward technical device of modern collateral. From this premise, she analyzes the difference between a legal fiction and a literary fiction, and examines the factors that make legal fiction distinctively legal.
Recommended Citation
Riles, Annelise, "Wigmore's Shadow" (2006). Cornell Law Faculty Publications. 994.
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/994
Publication Citation
Published in: Triquarterly, vol. 124 (2006).