The Afterword draws together the interests of the volume as a whole by reflecting on the deep homologies between literature and the law. Using the works of Plato, Aristotle, Quintilian, and Philip Sidney, it reflects on their shared status as human constructs—as made things—and on their common interest in dialogue. Literature has a role to play in the preparation of capable lawyers, but law’s debt to literature runs deeper than that. A code of laws must operate in terms of generalities, and yet its application requires an appreciation of the particular details of each case. In mediating between the general and the particular, the lawyer must employ methods which are intrinsically poetic in character. It is literature, in short, which gives the law its powers of imagination.