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Jan 13, 2025
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ENGL170T PO - Law and LiteratureWhen Offered: Fall 2017.
Instructor(s): S. Raff
Credit: 1
In this seminar, we will examine literary treatments of matters pertaining to law (such as justice, jurisprudence, equity, norms, customs, civil disobedience, evidence, and bearing witness) and ask whether insights or techniques deriving from literature can contribute to legal reasoning. Areas of focus may include legal personhood, legal fictions, copyright, and military justice. Readings may include Sophocles, Plato, Shakespeare, Johnson, Kleist, Trollope, Melville, Kafka, Capote, Márquez, and Morrison, as well as William Blackstone, Peter Brooks, Robert Cover, Jacques Derrida, Richard Posner, Kenji Yoshino, Nomi Stolzenberg, Richard Weisberg, Robin West, and Martha Woodmansee. (TH; H4)
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 1
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