伊恩•沃德（Ian Ward）：英國紐卡斯爾大學法學院教授，劍橋大學博士，主治法律、文學和曆史的交叉學科研究，筆耕頗勤，除本書外，著有《康德主義、後現代主義和法律批判思想》（Kantianism, Postmodernism and Critical Legal Thought，Springer，2010年），《法律•文本•恐怖》（Law, Text, Terror，劍橋大學齣版社，2009年），《歐洲法批判指南》（A Critical Introduction to European Law，劍橋大學齣版社，2009年），《法律與文學》（Law and Literature，2008年），《英國憲製：神話與現實》（The English Constitution : Myths and Realities，牛津大學齣版社，2004年），《正義、人道與世界新秩序》（Justice, Humanity and the New World Order, Ashgate Pubilishing, 2003年），《一種思想狀態？》（A State of Mind？，Sutton，2000年），《莎士比亞與法律想象》（Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination，Butterworths，1999年）。

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