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Transcribes a discussion on LeCompte and Mark Ravenhill's Troilus and Cressida (q.v.). English summary, 233.
Focuses on the characters' "reductive transformations as they drift towards redemption" in Pericles to examine the rituality of the play through the lens of liminality. English summary, 3.
Examines Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery's Kill Shakespeare to argue that the graphic novel is a meta-text that engages with its own critics and addresses its alteration sof Shakespeare.
In arguing for ways in which literary and legal texts differ, considers the distinction between legal and affective power in Macbeth.
Focusing on the legal distinction between process and decision in Winter's Tale and on the concept of the legal "heir" in Sonnets, argues that literary texts and legal texts meet in their attention to linguistic differentiation.
Examines temporality in Othello in exploring the dependence of Shakespeare's plotting on processes of conjectural thinking, which leads to the expansion of the importance of forensic evidence in the early modern period's jury system.
Uses Measure for Measure in analyzing the formal and technical aspects of statutory interpretation, suggesting that Shakespeare advocates rule by law in the issue of the relation between law and monarchy.
In examining Iago's criminal behavior, focuses on Shakespeare's critical engagement with early modern criminal law in Othello, pointing out that "Othello refuses to accord Desdemona the very procedures that had vindicated him of a false charge in Act I." Reprinted as Chicago: Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper No. 504, available http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/public_law_and_legal_theory/520/ .
Utilizes "hospitality as a framework that merges the theatrical and the thematic in Shakespearean drama within dispositions of space that are at once urban, domestic, agrarian, and political-theological"; concludes that this "framework connects community to cosmos through its social and symbolic work."
Uses Merchant of Venice in exploring law as part of the commercial society it orders and serves.