As indicated, the aim of this study was to further strengthen the more established, older American research approaches in the interdisciplinary field of law and literature—which are now also hesitantly beginning to gain a foothold in Europe—and to continue them on European soil. This seems to be an even more important task given that the first attempt to formalise law and literature research within the framework of the Münster Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1385 “Law and Literature” came to an end in June 2024. Further institutionalised and broader-based research initiatives that go beyond the individual initiatives that have been established have not (yet) taken place, at least in the European countries to which this study is dedicated. The emphasis here is on the ‘yet’, because I would like to campaign for the further development and coordinated expansion of this highly interesting interdisciplinary branch of research. There is no reason to believe that literary scholars cannot develop legal sensitivity, just as lawyers can be equipped with literary skills because both are united by the text as the central object of investigation, which each discipline accesses (or can access) in its own way. This mode of access can certainly be changed, and it does not require an insurmountable effort to deal with the rules of interpretation, linguistic peculiarities, discursive regularities and language patterns of the other discipline that are specific to law or literature. This is precisely the aim of my work, namely, to show that interdisciplinary work is possible, even desirable, and to provide guidance on how this can be achieved. Pointing out the theoretical points of intersection between jurisprudence and literary studies on the one hand, and demonstrating the practical, methodical application of this theoretical knowledge using examples from contemporary literature on the other, are in the service of this endeavour to pave the way for further interdisciplinary work.