伊恩•沃德（Ian Ward）：英国纽卡斯尔大学法学院教授，剑桥大学博士，主治法律、文学和历史的交叉学科研究，笔耕颇勤，除本书外，著有《康德主义、后现代主义和法律批判思想》（Kantianism, Postmodernism and Critical Legal Thought，Springer，2010年），《法律•文本•恐怖》（Law, Text, Terror，剑桥大学出版社，2009年），《欧洲法批判指南》（A Critical Introduction to European Law，剑桥大学出版社，2009年），《法律与文学》（Law and Literature，2008年），《英国宪制：神话与现实》（The English Constitution : Myths and Realities，牛津大学出版社，2004年），《正义、人道与世界新秩序》（Justice, Humanity and the New World Order, Ashgate Pubilishing, 2003年），《一种思想状态？》（A State of Mind？，Sutton，2000年），《莎士比亚与法律想象》（Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination，Butterworths，1999年）。

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