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Utopia And The Law And Literature Movement, Michael P. Malloy
Utopia And The Law And Literature Movement, Michael P. Malloy
McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles
The year 2016 marks the quincentennial of the publication of Thomas More’s novel Utopia. In addition to being an important literary milestone and cultural artifact, Utopiarepresentsa significant marker in the history of political and legal philosophy. I would argue that it also provides an important contribution to the law and literature movement that has flourished in recent decades. It is that contribution that I wish to explore.
This paper begins with a brief introduction to the law and literature movement, in which I identify some of the objectives of the movement and the relationship of More’s novel to those objectives. …
Hope In The Life Of Thomas More, Thomas L. Shaffer, Stanley Hauerwas
Hope In The Life Of Thomas More, Thomas L. Shaffer, Stanley Hauerwas
Thomas L. Shaffer
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The Trial Of Sir Thomas More: An Account, Douglas O. Linder
The Trial Of Sir Thomas More: An Account, Douglas O. Linder
Faculty Works
There is much to learn from the story of how the head of one of the most revered men in England, Sir Thomas More, ended up on the chopping block on London's Tower Hill in 1535. Few people in history have faced their trials and deaths as squarely, calmly, and with as much integrity as did More. More's road from his post as Lord Chancellor of England to the Tower of London owes its course to a Bible passage, a marriage of a long-dead prince, and the consuming desire of lustful and vain-glorious King Henry VIII to marry Anne Boleyn. …
Rationing Justice—What Thomas More Would Say, Michael E. Tigar
Rationing Justice—What Thomas More Would Say, Michael E. Tigar
Faculty Scholarship
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Hope In The Life Of Thomas More, Thomas L. Shaffer, Stanley Hauerwas
Hope In The Life Of Thomas More, Thomas L. Shaffer, Stanley Hauerwas
Journal Articles
The seduction of power is as perennial as the threat of power spurned. Power is a medium for good and evil. Lawyers and politicians and their victims—Nixon and his cronies, for examples—come and go; but the moral problems of how to use power, how to live with it and leave it behind, remain.
One way to look at the moral problem of power is to ask how a virtuous person uses power, and lives close to power, without losing the sense of self which is necessary to negotiate the temptations of power. We propose to ask that question with respect …