Ethics of Reading VI - Criminal Cases: Reading Law with Literature/Search and Detection, Part Two

Date & Time Oct 07 2015 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker(s)
Allegra McLeod, Georgetown Law
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.