339.01 Law and Literature
This course concentrates on possible relationships between law and literature. The major themes will be the depiction of law and lawyers in popular and highbrow fiction; the relationship between the interpretation of legal and literary texts; law in utopia and dystopia; crime, punishment and racial justice and the romantic conception of authorship. Fair warning: the course involves considerable reading – but almost all of it consists of works of fiction. For the final exam, which you will have 2 weeks to complete, you will be given a list of very broad essay topics brought up by the books we have read, and will write 2, 2000 word essays on the topics of your choice.
Fall 2020
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James Boyle | |||
| Sakai site: https://sakai.duke.edu/portal/site/LAW.339.01.F20 | |||||
| Email list: LAW.339.01.F20@sakai.duke.edu | |||||
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Course Requirements - JD
Course Requirements - LLM
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