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Fiction In The Code: Reading Legislation As Literature, Thomas J. Mcsweeney
Fiction In The Code: Reading Legislation As Literature, Thomas J. Mcsweeney
Thomas J. McSweeney
One of the major branches of the field of law and literature is often described as "law as literature." Scholars of law as literature examine the law using the tools of literary analysis. The scholarship in this subfield is dominated by the discussion of narrative texts: confessions, victim-impact statements, and, above all, the judicial opinion. This article will argue that we can use some of the same tools to help us understand non-narrative texts, such as law codes and statutes. Genres create expectations. We do not expect a law code to be literary. Indeed, we tend to dissociate the law …
Pragmatism On The Shoulders Of Emerson: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'S Jurisprudence As A Synthesis Of Emerson, Peirce, James, And Dewey, Allen P. Mendenhall
Pragmatism On The Shoulders Of Emerson: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'S Jurisprudence As A Synthesis Of Emerson, Peirce, James, And Dewey, Allen P. Mendenhall
Allen Mendenhall
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. turned forty in 1881. The publication of The Common Law that year afforded him the opportunity to express his jurisprudence to a wide audience. Over the next year, he would become a professor at Harvard Law School and then, a few months later, an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Emerson died in 1882, and Holmes began to articulate Emersonian pragmatism in new ways more suited for the industrial, post-Civil War environment in which transcendentalism no longer held credence. This essay examines Holmes's adaptation of Emersonian pragmatism as a synthesis of some pragmatic theories …
Unexpected Insights Into Terrorism And National Security Law Through Children’S Literature: Reading The Butter Battle Book As Monstrosity, Nick J. Sciullo
Unexpected Insights Into Terrorism And National Security Law Through Children’S Literature: Reading The Butter Battle Book As Monstrosity, Nick J. Sciullo
Nick J. Sciullo
Legal knowledge often comes from unexpected encounters with legal theory. In this Essay, I critically analyze Dr. Seuss’s The Butter Battle Book as a source of international legal knowledge. Although this text was originally written as a criticism of the Cold War, I find modern parallels to the evolution of terrorism and national security law theorizing in the United States. As a result of this investigation, I provide a unique window onto civil society, and our continued fascination with the specter of terrorism.
Programa Para Un Curso Universitario De Literatura Y Derecho, Leysser L. Leon
Programa Para Un Curso Universitario De Literatura Y Derecho, Leysser L. Leon
Leysser L. León
Proyecto de sílabo del curso Literatura y Derecho presentado a la Facultad de Derecho de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú en noviembre de 1998.