Ethics of Reading VI - Criminal Cases: Reading Law with Literature/Confessions, Part Two

Date & Time Nov 11 2015 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker(s)
Peter Brooks, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar, University Center for Human Values and Department of Comparative Literature
Audience Open to the Public

This seminar will study important legal cases in the field of criminal justice alongside works of literature that appear to deal with the same issues. Focus on reading legal opinions, especially concerning: guilty minds and guilty acts, detection, evidence, confessions, punishment. Attention also to the analysis of narrative and rhetoric in both law and literature.

http://www.princeton.edu/~ereading/Syllabus2015.html

Open to the public.