Elizabeth S. Anker is Professor of Law at Cornell Law School and Professor in the Department of Literatures in English in the College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell University. Her book On Paradox: The Claims of Theory was published with Duke University Press in December 2023, and her other work includes Fictions of Dignity: Embodying Human Rights in World Literature (Cornell 2012), the essay collections Critique and Postcritique (with Rita Felski, Duke 2017) and New Directions in Law and Literature (with Bernadette Meyler, Oxford 2017). In addition, she recently co-edited a 2018 special issue of diacritics titled “The Novel and the Lyric” and a 2021 Symposium on “The Stakes for Critical Legal Theory” published with The University of Colorado Law Review. She also edits the Cornell UP book series “Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law.” Her current project examines how the conservative legal movement borrows arguments and ideas from the critical left.