‘Foundations of Sovereign Authority: The Example of Shakespearean Political Drama’, in Shakespeare and Authority (K Halsey & A Vine, eds) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp 135-54 (using literary model to re-evaluate early modern conceptions of sovereign legitimacy contrary to the straightforwardly ‘system building’ models of such writers as Bodin, Hobbes, and Locke)

‘Selecting the Memory, Controlling the Myth: The Propaganda of Legal Foundations in Early Modern Drama’, in Injustice, Memory and Faith in Human Rights (K Chainoglou & B Collins, eds) (Routledge, 2017), pp. 57-75 (examining public consciousness as an element of authority and governance)

‘Legal Hybridity in Literature: Revisiting the Post-Colonial in The Tempest and Cymbeline’, in Hybridity: Law, Culture and Development, eds. Nicolas Lemay-Hébert & Rosa Freedman (Routledge, 2017), pp. 122 – 40 (examining notions of legal cross-fertilisation within colonial contexts)

‘The Literary Model in Comparative Law: Shakespeare, Corneille, Racine’, 9(2) Journal of Comparative Law (2014), pp. 17-27 (examining the comparison of early modern literary works as a means of identifying core concerns of comparative legal theory)

‘Where be his quiddities now?: Law and Language in Hamlet’, in Law and Language: Current Legal Issues, vol. 15, Michael Freeman & Fiona Smith, eds., Oxford University Press (2013), pp 201-20 (examining socio-linguistic elements of law as an instrument of government power and social control)

‘He’d turn the world itself into a prison: Empire and Enlightenment in Jean Racine’s Alexander the Great’, 4(1) Law & Humanities (2010), pp. 63 – 89 (examining conflicting models of law within early modern understandings of empire)

‘This power isn’t power if it’s shared: Law and Violence in Jean Racine’s La Thébaïde’, 22(1) Law & Literature (2010), pp. 76 – 109 (examining problems of sovereign legitimacy arising within the early modern state)

‘Were it not against our laws: Oppression and Resistance in Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors’, 29 Legal Studies (2009), pp. 230 – 63 (drawing upon Aristotle and Hegel to examine socio-legal hierarchies in early modernity)

‘Power Politics and the Rule of Law: Shakespeare’s First Historical Tetralogy and Law’s “Foundations”‘, 29 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2009), pp. 230 – 63 (examining problems of establishing the authority of the Early modern nation state)

‘Imperialism and Nationalism in Early Modernity: The “Cosmopolitan” and The “Provincial” in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline’, 18(3) Journal of Social & Legal Studies (2009), pp. 373-96 (examining conflicting models of law within early modern understandings of empire)

‘Heir, Celebrity, Martyr, Monster: Legal and Political Legitimacy in Shakespeare and Beyond’, 20(1) Law & Critique (2009), pp. 79 – 103 (examining conflicting models of sovereign authority)