ENGL 7412

Law and Humanities Colloquium

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

In an era of increasing interdisciplinary collaboration, the fields that comprise the humanities are engaging in new ways with law as well as with each other, and projects developed within the context of law schools themselves bear renewed relevance to the humanities. This colloquium will bring together scholars working at the forefront of legal history, law and literature, law and culture, and critical theory from the institutional vantage points of both law and the humanities. This year, the colloquium will focus on the topic of "law and justice." The course will begin with three weeks of seminar designed to apprise students of existing work in law and the humanities and to situate current developments within this broader frame, concentrating on the often complicated relationship between law and justice. We will examine, for example, debates about voting, trial procedure, the prison system, citizenship, and other aspects of democratic process. After the introductory sessions, the remainder of the course will be organized around a series of speakers, some drawn from Cornell and some from other universities. Students will be required to write six three- to five-page papers responding to the speakers' pre-circulated talks.

When Offered Spring.

Permission Note Limited enrollment.

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