Gary Watt
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Gary Watt is a Professor of Law at The University of Warwick, UK. He is a co-founding editor of the journal Law and Humanities, general editor of the book series A Cultural History of Law (Bloomsbury, 2019) and co-editor of the collection Shakespeare and the Law (Hart Publishing, 2008). His monographs include Equity Stirring: The Story of Justice Beyond Law (Hart Publishing, 2009); Dress, Law and Naked Truth: A Cultural Study of Fashion and Form (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Shakespeare’s Acts of Will: Law, Testament and Properties of Performance (Bloomsbury, The Arden Shakespeare, 2016). Since 2009, when he was named UK “Law Teacher of the Year”, he has regularly led rhetoric workshops for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2016, he toured with The Song Company of Australia as co-writer and performer of A Strange Eventful History, a production to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.