Introduction / Marianne Constable, Leti Volpp, and Bryan Wagner -- Places -- The wild life of law : domesticating nature in the Bering Sea, c. 1893 / Rebecca M. McLennan -- Before emptiness : on the destructiveness and impotence of law / Samera Esmeir -- Spun dry : mobility and jurisdiction in northern Australia / Daniel Fisher -- Signs of authority in Indian country / Beth H. Piatote -- Membership -- Signs of law / Leti Volpp -- After Obergefell : on marriage and belonging in Carson McCullers's Member of the wedding / Sarah Song -- Secularism, family law, and gender inequality / Saba Mahmood -- Religion -- When persons become firms and firms become persons : neoliberal jurisprudence and evangelical Christianity in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. / Wendy Brown -- Is there Jewish law? : the case of Josephus / Daniel Boyarin -- The Protestant power of attorney of 1531 : a legalistic history of the early Reformation in Germany / Looking for law in The confessions of Nat Turner / Christopher Tomlins -- A vigil at the end of the world / Kathryn Abrams -- Invention and process in Bilski / Marianne Constable -- "Erudite curiosity" : the trial of Jean-Jacques Pauvert, publisher of The complete works of the Marquis de Sade, Paris 1958 / Ramona Naddaff -- The trial of Romeo Rosebud / Bryan Wagner.