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Andrew Huxley, "Shylock's Bad Karma: The Buddhist Approach to Law", Law and Critique 7 (1996), 245-255: Two stories from Buddhist legal sources are analysed: they both have much in common with The Merchant of Venice's `pound of flesh' story. David Daube's explanation of such stories as 'misuse of legal formalism against the misuser of it' is found inapplicable. In explaining why, the paper discusses the centrality to Buddhist law of Buddhist causation theory, and the relationship between karma and causation. email: ah6@soas.ac.uk

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