Literary Approaches to Law - Professor Armstrong

Required Texts:
 
Elizabeth Fajans & Mary R. Falk, Scholarly Writing for Law Students: Seminar Papers, Law Review Notes and Law Review Competition Papers (5th ed. 2017) [ISBN: 978-1683282075] [“SWLS”]
 
James Boyd White, Heracles’ Bow: Essays on the Rhetoric & Poetics of the Law (Univ. of Wis. Press 1989) [Paperback Version – ISBN: 978-0299104146] [“HB”]
 
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (Columbia L. Rev. Ass’n et al. eds., 21st ed. 2020) [ISBN: 978-0578666150] (or earlier edition).
 
I will provide additional primary texts on TWEN.
 
First Assignment:
 
***Class will not meet in person on 1/10. Please watch the introductory video on TWEN in lieu of this first class. (I will be traveling on 1/10; I’m sorry we can’t meet in person until 1/17.) The following is the reading for our 1/10 class. There will be additional reading for 1/17, so it’s in your interest to complete this reading by 1/10 to stay on pace. Also, I will discuss this reading in the introductory video, so it’s to your advantage to do the reading before watching it.***
 
Required reading for 1/10 class:
An amuse bouche: A. Laurence Polak, Author’s Apologia, in Legal Fictions 8-10 (Wm. W. Gaunt & Sons, Inc. 1995) and A. Laurence Polak, Shylock v. Antonio, in More Legal Fictions 113-20 (Wm. W. Gaunt & Sons, Inc. 1995) [I will post this on TWEN under Course Materials.]
 
HB, Foreward and Chapter 6, The Judicial Opinion and the Poem
 
Selections from: Julie Stone Peters, Theatre, Theatrocracy, and the Politics of Pathos in the Athenian Lawcourt, Law as Performance 30-36 (2022) [I will post this on TWEN under Course Materials.]
 
SWLS Chapters 1 and 2 (pgs. 1-26)