Ethics of Reading VI - Criminal Cases: Reading Law with Literature/Evidence & Trial, Part Two | Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Date & Time Oct 21 2015 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Department Program in Law and Public Affairs-See P*LAW for future programming

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.