Law and History: Foundation Seminar is designed to introduce the discipline of legal history and to consider its contribution to broader areas of legal scholarship. Seminar Readings – comprised chiefly of book-length interpretations of major episodes of legal change and institutional development - have been chosen to illustrate characteristic areas of research, methods of inquiry, and interpretative controversies within the contemporary practice of legal history. Two general themes receive extensive attention: the relationship between legal history and changes in economy and society; and the historical study of courts and of the relationship between courts and the communities in which they function.
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Law & History Foundation Seminar (D. Lieb*rman)
Representations of Law in American Fiction (T. Sasso*bre)
This seminar is primarily concerned with the ways American fiction represents law as culture. The texts assigned— written by James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Henry James, Frank Norris, Nella Larsen, William Faulkner, Sherman Alexie, and others—register changes in property law, the law of contracts, intellectual property and the legal constructions of race and privacy in relation to the maintenance of personal identity, community stability, and linguistic meaning. The terms and stakes of these relationships will inform our readings of the texts themselves, as well as our understanding of their representations of law. We will also consider the points of contact between literary narrative and narrative in law.
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