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Trauma-Informed Advocacy: Learning To Empathize With Unspeakable Horrors, Susan Ayres
Trauma-Informed Advocacy: Learning To Empathize With Unspeakable Horrors, Susan Ayres
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"Simple" Takes On The Supreme Court, Robert L. Tsai
"Simple" Takes On The Supreme Court, Robert L. Tsai
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This essay assesses black literature as a medium for working out popular understandings of America’s Constitution and laws. Starting in the 1940s, Langston Hughes’s fictional character, Jesse B. Semple, began appearing in the prominent black newspaper, the Chicago Defender. The figure affectionately known as “Simple” was undereducated, unsophisticated, and plain spoken - certainly to a fault according to prevailing standards of civility, race relations, and professional attainment. Butthese very traits, along with a gritty experience under Jim Crow, made him not only a sympathetic figure but also an armchair legal theorist. In a series of barroom conversations, Simple ably critiqued …
Marlowe's Faustus: Contract As Metaphor?, Daniel B. Yeager
Marlowe's Faustus: Contract As Metaphor?, Daniel B. Yeager
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Law And Literature: Representing Lesbians, Anne B. Goldstein
Law And Literature: Representing Lesbians, Anne B. Goldstein
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What is involved in representing a lesbian in law or in literature? The premise of this Article is that the work of novelists is enough like the work of lawyers that useful insights can be drawn in at least one direction. That is, lawyers can learn how to represent lesbian clients better by studying books with lesbian characters.