Full Description
Law and literature is a relatively new discipline in the humanities, especially seen from a lawyer's point of view. This book is an introduction to law and literature as a field of interest for lawyers, students, and scholars of literature. It is based on a seminar that took place at the Carlsberg Academy in Copenhagen in March 2007, arranged by the Faculty of Law, Copenhagen University. The contributors are all pioneers within the law and literature movement in the US, Europe, and the Nordic countries.
Contents
Introduction - By Karen-Margrethe Simonsen and Ditlev Tamm | Rich, Sweet, and Tender vs. Sour, Displeased and Upset: Two Ways of Seeing Things in `Noon Wine' - By Richard H. Weisberg | `The Bloody Book of Law', some Remarks on the Interrelation of Law, Medicine, and the Behavioral Sciences in William Shakespeare's 'The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice' - By Jeanne Gaakeer | The Menace of Venice, Or Reading and Performing the Law in/of The Merchant of Venice - By Leif Dahlberg | Killing an Arab = ? On Judgments as Literature and Literature as Judgment - By Arild Linneberg | Law as a Tale of Identity - and Some Perspectives on Human Rights Law - By Sten Schaumburg-Müller | Europe as Contested Terrain: On European Narratives of Human Rights - By Helle Porsdam
