法律与文学运动兴起于20世纪70年代,是一种将法律视为某种文学形式的法律研究思潮。其产生的标志无疑是1973年美国芝加哥大学著名法学教授詹姆斯·怀特所撰写的《法律的想象》一书的出版。随着法律与文学运动的发展,至今已形成了四个分支领域,既法律中的文学、作为文学的法律、通过文学的法律意见有关文学的法 The law and literary movement emerged in the 1970s and was a legal research trend that regarded law as a literary form. The mark it produced is undoubtedly the publication of “Imagination of Law” by James White, a famous professor of law at the University of Chicago in 1973. With the development of law and literary movement, up to now, there have been formed four sub-fields: literature in law, literature law, literary law opinion