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LAWS 5904

Contemporary Topics in Legal Studies

0.5 credit · Graduate

A research seminar which explores a selected topic from current debates in legal studies. Students should check with the Department regarding the topic offered.

Topics

Course catalogue

2024

Readings

  • Benjamin N. Cardozo, “Law and Literature,” Yale Review, Vol. 14, 1925, pp. 699–718.
  • Charles A. Reich, “Toward the Humanistic Study of Law,” Yale Law Journal, Vol. 74, No. 8, 1965, pp. 1402–1408.
  • Elizabeth S. Anker, “Globalizing Law and Literature” in Elizabeth S. Anker, and Bernadette Meyler (eds), New Directions in Law and Literature (New York: OUP, 2017), pp. 210–226.
  • Karl Marx, “Preface to A Critique of Political Economy,” 1859, Karl Marx: Selected Writings, ed. David McLellan, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 424–428.
  • WReC: Warwick Research Collective, Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature, Liverpool University Press, 2015, pp. 1–80.
  • Sharae Deckard, Michael Niblett, and Stephen Shapiro, Tracking Capital: World-Systems, World-Ecology, World-Culture, (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2024).
  • The 1805 Imperial Constitution of Haiti in: Laurent Dubois & John D. Garrigus, Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789–1804: A Brief History with Documents, Boston & New York: Bedford-
  • St. Martin’s, 2006, pp. 191–96.
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