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What Zombies Can Teach Law Students: Popular Text Inclusion In Law And Literature, Thomas E. Simmons
What Zombies Can Teach Law Students: Popular Text Inclusion In Law And Literature, Thomas E. Simmons
Mercer Law Review
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The productive use of zombies in a law school curriculum is not limited to hypothetical scenarios and posing "what if' questions. The content of an interdisciplinary law and literature course could be expanded to include consideration of texts that reference zombies. While serious, canonical works such as Dickens's Bleak House, Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder, and Kafka's The Trial constitute examples of literature and film that merit serious study in a course in law and literature, I will assert that lesser texts should also be included, both as a way to highlight why Martin Scorsese outshines George …