Reprint. Originally published: New York : Praeger, 1992.
Establishing laws: God sees the truth but waits / Leo Tolstóy. Excerpts from Antigone / Sophocles. Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby / Donald Barthelme. The bicentennial man / Isaac Asimov. Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The lynching of Jube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar. The corpus delicti / Melville Davisson Post. The benefit of doubt / Jack London -- The judicial system: In a grove / Ryunosuke Akutagawa. The story of the Chief of Old Cairo / from the Arabian Nights. Beyond any doubt / Robert O'Neil Bristow. A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell.
Colonel Starbottle for the plaintiff / Bret Harte. Triumph of justice / Irwin Shaw. How the pretty maid of Portillon convinced her judge / Honoré de Balzac. A wasted day / Richard Harding Davis -- Punishment: The two drovers / Sir Walter Scott. Too dear! / Leo Tolstóy. In the penal colony / Franz Kafka. The pit and the pendulum / Edgar Allan Poe. The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe. The minister's black veil / Nathaniel Hawthorne. Mateo Falcone / Propser Mérimée. Barn burning / William Faulkner -- Criminal matters: Hard to be good / Bill Barich.
Paul's case / Willa Cather. Sicilian honor / Luigi Pirandello. Han's crime / Shiga Naoya. The catbird seat / James Thurber. The animus furandi / Melville Davisson Post. Rosalie Prudent / Guy de Maupassant. The assassin / Guy de Maupassant -- Civil matters: How much land does a man need? / Leo Toystóy. Under the lion's paw / Hamlin Garland. Hippolyte's claim / Guy de Maupassant. The negotiable cow / Sir Alan Herbert. Fardell & Potts : the reasonable man / Sir Alan Herbert. The most outrageous consequences / James Reid Parker.
Counsel for Oedipus / Frank O'Connor. Madame Filippa is accused of wronging her husband / Giovanni Boccaccio.
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