1973年美国密西根大学的法学教授詹姆斯.伯艾德.怀特在小布朗公司出版了一本教科书《法律的想像:法律思想和表述的属性研究》,标志着“法律与文学”运动的正式起步,不过该作品在20世纪70年代并未引起人们的兴趣。但80年代后期以来,法律与文学运动已成为一个比较引人注目的法学流派,被认为是西方“后现代法律运动”的重要一支,并逐渐从美国走向世界。 In 1973, James Boyd White, a law professor at the University of Michigan, in Little Brown published a textbook, “The Imagination of Law: A Study of the Attributes of Legal Thought and Expressions,” which marked the beginning of the “Law and Literature” movement Officially started, but the piece in the 1970s did not cause people’s interest. However, since the late 1980s, the law and literary movement has become a relatively prominent school of law and is considered as an important one in the Western “postmodern legal movement.” It gradually moves from the United States to the world.