Law and Literature

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This course explores law in literature and law as literature. Themes of justice and bias and the limits of the law will be investigated in a range of literary texts, from Shakespeare to Melville, Wollstonecraft to Morrison, Coetzee, and Danticat. In addition, writings by Supreme Court Justices, trial transcripts, newspaper reports, prison letters, and documentaries will be read using the methods of literary interpretation and analysis.