Law, Rights, and Justice

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Focused on the question of justice, this course will cover a wide variety of topics ranging from the detective novel, and literary texts inspired by criminal cases, to legal philosophy, human rights, and international law. Source materials may include a few documents from Greek and Roman Antiquity as well as passages from the bible, but the emphasis is on German literary, legal, and philosophical texts from the eighteenth century to the present. Taught in German.