From the Shakespeare Moot Court site:
Posted on May 16, 2005 01:02 PM. Filed under: books & lit.In the McGill Shakespeare Moot Court, students from Law and graduate students from English team up to argue cases in the "Court of Shakespeare" where the sole Institutes, Codex, and Digest, is comprised by the plays of William Shakespeare. In 2005, students will make up six mooting teams — one Law and one English student on each team. Their supervisors, and the originators of the Moot court, are Desmond Manderson from Law and Paul Yachnin from English.
This is not about the law in Shakespeare's time, or what Shakespeare says about law: it is something far more radical. Our project is to think of Shakespeare as law, just as we think of the Civil Code or the judgments of the Supreme Court as law. By a process of dramatic invention and indirection, the project seeks to model and to explore the nature of interpretation, the development of a legal tradition, and the way in which value and meaning intersect in the creation of law and literature alike. The overall aims of the project are: [continue]