Connubial Fictions The Evolution of Marriage in American Law and Literature

Jonathan S. Masur is John P. Wilson Professor of Law; the Director of the Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Program in Behavioral Law, Finance and Economics; and the David and Celia Hilliard Research Scholar, all at the University of Chicago Law School. He received a BS in physics and an AB in political science from Stanford University and his JD from Harvard Law School. Masur is the co-author of Happiness and the Law (2015) and co-editor of Cannons and Codes: Law, Literature, and America's Wars (2021).

Richard H. McAdams is Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He is the author of The Expressive Powers of Law (2015), and co-editor of Fatal Fictions: Crime and Investigation in Law and Literature (2017) and Fairness in Law and Economics (2013). His poetry has been published in Cream City Review and The Literary Nest.

Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, in the Law

School and Philosophy Department at the University of Chicago. She is the author or co-author of over 500 articles and twenty-six books, including most recently The Republic of Love: Opera, Breath, and Freedom (2026) and The Tenderness of Silent Minds: Benjamin Britten and His War Requiem (2024). Nussbaum has received the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy (2016), the Holberg Prize (2021), and the Balzan Prize (2022).