Publications
Books (monographs)
(2023) The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law: Rhetorical Performance as Invention, Creation, Production (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) [OPEN ACCESS]
Part One – The Making Sense
1. The Making Sense – Introduction
2. Invention, Creation, Production
3. Artefaction – Making Things
Part Two – The Truth Factory
4. The Truth Factory – Crafting Fact and Law
5. Making Sex Change: Legal Engendering of Trans People
6. Making Faces, Performing Persons
Part Three – The Acting President
7. The Acting President
8. Political Confection – Making a Meal of It
9. State Building
Part Four – Masses, Media, and Popular Judgment
10. Co-Production and Populism
11. Faking News
12. Making Mistakes – Trial by Twitter and Cancel Culture
(2016) Shakespeare’s Acts of Will: Law, Testament and Properties of Performance (London, Bloomsbury, The Arden Shakespeare).
Chapter 1. ‘Performance is a kind of will or testament’ pp. 1–24 DOI: 10.5040/9781474217880.ch-001 (Read)
Chapter 2. Handling tradition: Testament as trade in Richard II and King John pp. 25–74 DOI:10.5040/9781474217880.ch-002 (Download)
Chapter 3. Worlds of will in As You Like It and The Merchant of Venice pp. 75–108 DOI:10.5040/9781474217880.ch-003
Chapter 4. ‘Shall I descend?’: Rhetorical stasis and moving will in Julius Caesar pp. 109–148 DOI:10.5040/9781474217880.ch-004
Chapter 5. ‘His will is not his own’: Hamlet downcast and the problem of performance pp. 149–202 DOI:10.5040/9781474217880.ch-005
Chapter 6. From dust to dust and sealing wax: The materials of testamentary performance pp. 203–222 DOI: 10.5040/9781474217880.ch-006
(2013) Dress, Law and Naked Truth: A Cultural Study of Fashion and Form (London, Bloomsbury).
Chapter 1. Dress is Law pp. 1–12 [DOI: 10.5040/9781472544438.ch-001]
Chapter 2. Foundations of the State of Dress pp. 13–50 [DOI: 10.5040/9781472544438.ch-002]
Chapter 3. Shakespeare on Proof and Fabricated Truth pp. 51–78 [DOI: 10.5040/9781472544438.ch-003]
Chapter 4. The Face the Law Makes pp. 79–122 [DOI: 10.5040/9781472544438.ch-004]
Chapter 5. Addressing the Naked and Unfolding the Veil pp. 123–148 [DOI: 10.5040/9781472544438.ch-005]
Chapter 6. Something More Comfortable: A Fitting Conclusion pp. 149–156 [DOI: 10.5040/9781472544438.ch-006]
(2009) Equity Stirring: The Story of Justice Beyond Law (Oxford, Hart Publishing).
Chapter 1. Excursion pp.1–46 [DOI: 10.5040/9781474200646.ch-001]
Chapter 2. In Chancery pp. 47–82 [DOI: 10.5040/9781474200646.ch-002]
Chapter 3. Chancery Script pp. 83–134 [DOI: 10.5040/9781474200646.ch-003]
Chapter 4. Figuring Equity pp. 135–168 [DOI: 10.5040/9781474200646.ch-004]
Chapter 5. The Equity of Esther Summerson pp. 169–194 [DOI: 10.5040/9781474200646.ch-005]
Chapter 6. Shakespeare’s Equity pp. 195–226 [DOI: 10.5040/9781474200646.ch-006]
Chapter 7. Pretence of Equity pp. 227–248 [DOI: 10.5040/9781474200646.ch-007]
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