Law’s Metaphors: Interrogating Languages of Law, Justice and Legitimacy presents a series of essays that reveal how metaphors for terms relating to the theory and practice of law are utilized in legal texts, literary works, and in our popular imagination. Represents an innovative approach to interdisciplinary legal scholarshipFeatures new developments in theorizing law’s relations with language, society, and cultureIncludes contributions from European and North American scholars across several relevant disciplinesReveals the prevalence and power of the use of metaphors in the legal profession and in the popular imagination