Christine Corcos
A
Definition and Discussion of Law and Literature
Jeanne Gaakeer, Professor, Erasmus University,
Rotterdam
(from IVR)
A Short
Bibliography on Law and the Humanities in the Curriculum
General Works
Allinson, A. A. and F. E.
Hotchin, Mystery and Crime (1968)(14-16: A Reading Guide).
Aristodemou, Maria,
Studies
in Law and Literature: Directions and Concerns, 22 Anglo-American Law Review
157 (May/June 1993).
Arthurs, Harry W.,
The
Law School in a University Setting, in Legal Education in Canada 167 (Roy J.
Matas and Deborah J. McCawley eds., 1987).
Atkinson, Michael,
Sherlock
Holmes and The Red-Headed League: A Symbolic Paradigm for the Teaching of Plot,
7 College Literature 153 (1980).
Batt, John,
Law,
Science, and Narrative: Reflections on Brain Science, Electronic Media, Story, and Law
Learning, 40 Journal of Legal Education 19 (1990).
Blum, Debra E.,
Professor
Guides His Students Through Literature to Determine How Law Represents Society's Values,
36 Chronicle of Higher Education A11 (November 22, 1989).
Brooker, Gerard T., Lou
Organella, Rebecca Godin, Len DeAngelis, and Elizabeth Brockman, Dealing with Sexually
Explicit Language or Subject Matter in Literature, 82 (4) English Journal 83
(April 1993).
Chase, Anthony,
On
Teaching Law and Popular Culture, 3 Focus on Law Studies 1 (1988).
- Conn, Stephen, Another
View . . . Multicultural Law and Humanities Education: Preparing Young People for a Future
of Constructive Pluralism, in Daring to Dream: Law and the Humanities for
Elementary Schools 62 (Lynda Carl Falkenstein and Charlotte C. Anderson, eds.,
Chicago: American Bar Association, 1980).
- Conn, Stephen, Reply
Paper to "Multicultural Law-Related Education in the Humanities" by Dr. Carlos
E. Cortes. Paper presented at the American Bar Association Symposium on Law and the
Humanities: A Design for Elementary Law-Related Education, Chicago, May 1978.
Cook, Nancy L.,
Shakespeare
Comes to the Law School Classroom, 68 Denver University Law Review 387 (1991).
Cunningham, Clark D.,
Learning
From Law Students: A Socratic Approach to Law and Literature? 63 University of
Cincinnati Law Review 195 (1994).
Part of a Symposium on
Law, Literature and the Humanities.
Davenport, William H.,
A
Course in Literature for Law Students, 6 Journal of Legal Education 569 (1954).
D'Errico, Peter, Stephen
Arons and Janet Rifkin, Humanistic Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, 28 Journal of Legal Educatio 18 (1976).
Dunlop, Charles Richard
B., Literature Studies in Law Schools, 3 Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature
63 (1991).
Eisele, Thomas D.,
Introduction:
Conducting Our Educations in Public, 63 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1
(1994). Part of a Symposium on Law, Literature, and the Humanities.
Evans, Richard,
Legal
Fictions: Lessons From Literature and the Law, 67 Law Institute Journal 1134
(1993).
Felice, Angela,
Il
"Giallo" a Scuola: I Ragazzi "Detectives", 79 Problemi 192
(1987). Teaching methods.
Flack, Jerry D., Mystery
and Detection: Thinking and Problem Solving With the Great Sleuths (1990)(Gifted
Treasury Series). How to use detective and mystery stories to teach gifted children.
Freund, Paul A., The Humanities and the Constitution,
3 Humanities 3 (1982)
From Literature, the
Inspiration to Give Up Lives of Crime, 143 New York Times B8 (October 6,
1993)(National Edition); 143 New York Times B10 (October 6, 1993)(Long Island
Edition).
Gemmette, Elizabeth
Villiers, Law and Literature: An Unnecessarily Suspect Class in the Liberal Arts
Component of the Law School Curriculum, 23 Valparaiso University Law Review 267
(1989).
Gemmette, Elizabeth
Villiers, Law and Literature: Joining the Class Action (1995).
Grosberg, L. M.,
The Buffalo
Creek Disaster: An Effective Supplement To a Conventional Civil Procedure Course,
37 Legal Education 378 (1987).
Harrison, Melissa,
A
Time of "Passionate Learning": Using Feminism, Law, and Literature To Create a
Learning Community, 60 Tennessee Law Review 393 (1993).
Heilbrun, Carolyn G. and
Judith A. Resnik, Convergences: Law, Literature, and Feminism, 99 Yale Law
Journal 1913 (1990).
Heilbrun was a Columbia
University English professor for many years, and writes mysteries under the name Amanda
Cross.
Horn, Raymond Carl, Dramatization
of Literary Trial Scenes: Mock Trials and Legal Concepts for Secondary School
(Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1993).
Johnson, Carl and Ann
Scales, An Absolutely, Positively True Story: Seven Reasons Why We Sing, 16 New
Mexico Law Review 433 (1986).
Loesch, Frank J.,
Is
Acquaintance With Legal Novels Essential To a Lawyer? 21 Illinois Law Review
109 (1926), reprinted in 5 Tennessee Law Review 133 (1927) and 60 American Law
Review 719 (1926).
Law, Literature, and the
Humanities: Panel Discussion, 63 University of Cincinnati Law Review 387
(1994).
Part of a Symposium on
Law, Literature and the Humanities. Participants: James Boyd White, Nancy L. Cook, Judy M.
Cornett, Clark D. Cunningham, Thomas D. Eisele, Lewis Henry LaRue and David Ray Papke.
Lits, Marc, L'Heure du
Soupçon: Didactique et Herméneutique: Propositions pour une Analyse Indicielle du Récit
d'Enigme Criminelle en Classe de Français (Dissertation, Université Catholique de
Louvain (Belgium), 1988).
Minow, Martha,
Words
and the Door to the Land of Change: Law, Language, and Family Violence, 43 Vanderbilt
Law Review 1665 (1990).
Osborn, John Jay Jr.,
UFOs
in the Law School Curriculum: The Popularity and Value of Law and Literature Courses,
14 Legal Studies Forum 53 (1990).
Osborn is the author of The
Paper Chase and other works.
Quinn, Mary Lou and Eugene
P. A. Schleh, Popular Crime in Africa: The Macmillan Education Program, 10 Clues
37 (Fall/Winter 1989).
Radin, Margaret Jane,
"After
the Final No There Comes a Yes": A Law Teacher's Report, 2 Yale Journal of Law
& the Humanities 253 (1990).
Richmond, Michael,
The
Cultural Milieu of Law, 13 Nova Law Review 89 (1988).
Resnik, Judith,
On the Margin:
Humanities and Law, 10 Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 413 (1998).
Rouse,
Literature and
the Law: An Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts Course, 9 University of Hartford Studies
in Literature 83 (1977).
Sarat, Austin, Traditions and
Trajectories in Law and Humanities Scholarship, 10 Yale Journal of Law and
Humanities 401 (1998).
Smith, Paul,
The
Political Responsibility of the Teaching of Literatures, 17 College Literature
80 (June/October 1990).
Taylor,
Anya, Teaching Ancient
Mariner and Christabel to Students of Criminal Justice, in Approaches To
Teaching Coleridge's Poetry and Prose 128 (Richard E. Matlak ed., 1991)(Approaches to
Teaching; 38).
Teaching About Law in the
Liberal Arts, 11 Focus on Law Studies no. 2, Spring 1996
Toplitt, Sheldon C.,
Teaching
the Three L's: Law, Language and Literature, Docket Call, Fall (September 22)
1982, at 17.
Turner, J. Neville,
Teaching
Law Through Literature, 14 University Queensland Law Journal 61 (1985).
Utah Law-Related Education
Project, Teaching Young People About the Law Through Literature: An Annotated
Bibliography (Marilou R. Sorenson ed., 1980).
Ward, Ian,
The
Educative Ambition of Law and Literature, 13 Legal Studies 323 (1993).
On the wider topic of the
integration of interdisciplinary and non-traditional courses of study into the law school
curriculum see for example
Van Zandt, David E.,
The
Relevance of Social Theory to Legal Theory, 83 Northwestern University Law Review
10 (1989).
Wellington, Harry H.,
Challenges
to Legal Education: The "Two Cultures" Phenomenon, 37 Journal of Legal
Education 327 (1987).
White, James Boyd,
Teaching
Law and Literature, 27 Mosaic 1 (December 1994).
For General Reading
Abraham, Kenneth S.,
Reading
Law and Reading Literature, 3 American Legal Studies Association Newsletter 31
(1976).
Aesthetics vs. Ideology:
The Motives Behind "Law and Literature", 14 Columbia-VLA Journal of Law
& the Arts 587 (1990).
Axelrod, Allan,
Do
Humanities Have Anything To Contribute to the Practice of Law? 4 Learning and the
Law 38 (1977).
Ayer, John D.,
The Very
Idea of Law and Literature, 85 Michigan Law Review 895 (1987).
Barker, C. M.,
Lawyers
and Literature, 16 Law Student Helper 43 (1908).
Bates, Frank,
A
Reflection Upon Law and Literature, 28 Chitty's Law Journal 13 (January 1980).
Becker, John E.,
The
Law, the Prophets, and Wisdom: On the Functions of Literature, 37 College English
254 (1975).
The Bench and Literature,
70 Solicitors Journal and Weekly Reporter 994 (1926).
Birkett, L. J.,
Law and
Literature: The Equipment of the Lawyer, 36 American Bar Association Journal
891 (1950).
Blair, Duncan B.,
Literature
for Lawyers: A New Approach to an Old Subject, 53 Alabama Lawyer 271 (July
1992).
Bonsignore, John J.,
Meta-Law
Through Literature, American Legal Studies Association Newsletter, January
1976, at 11.
Camilleri,
Marijane, Comment:
Lessons in Law From Literature: A Look at the Movement and a Peer at Her Jury, 39 Catholic
University Law Review 557 (1990).
Campbell, Allan R.,
The
Law as Treated in Fiction, 14 Green Bag 364 (1902); 113 Law Times 415
(1902).
Fischer, John,
Reading
Literature/Reading Law: Is There a Literary Jurisprudence? 72 Texas Law Review
135 (1993).
Fodden, Simon,
Bodies
of Literature, Bodies of Law, 25 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 159 (1987).
Foster, Teree E.,
But
Is It Law? Using Literature To Penetrate Societal Representations of Women, 43 Journal
of Legal Education 133 (1993).
Kingwell, Mark,
Let's
Ask Again: Is Law Like Literature? 6 Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 317
(1994).
Ko Eng
Tian, Lawyers
and Literature, 10 Singapore Law Review 39 (1989).
Koffler, Judith S.,
The
Assimilation of Law and Literature: An Approach To Metanoia, American Legal Studies
Association Forum, May 1978, at 5.
Koffler, Judith S.,
Reflections
on Detente: Law and Literature, 62 Texas Law Review 1157 (1984).