Ethics of Reading VI - Criminal Cases: Reading Law with Literature/State, Crime, Policing

Date & Time Dec 16 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 Lierature
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.