Law and literature

2007·0.37 MB·English

by  Stern, Simon

UNIVERSITY OF
LAW AND LITERATURE
VOLUME II
Faculty of Law
University of Toronto
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LAW AND LITERATURE
VOLUME II
Professor Simon Stern
Fall 2007
Faculty of Law
University of Toronto
These materials are intended for the sole educational use of students at the
University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law
Digitized by the Internet Archive
in 2018 with funding from
University of Toronto
https://archive.org/details/lawliterature00ster_0
Oct. 9 - The Form of the Case Page I or i
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The Form of the Case
James Chandler, excerpt from "Altering Th® Case The Invention of the Historical
Situation.pdf." in England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of
Romantic Historicism (U of Chicago Press, 1998), pp. 203-212
Robert A, Ferguson, “The Judicial Opinion as Literary Genre,” Yale Journal of Law & the
Humanities 2 (1990): 201-19
John Leubsdorf, “The Structure of Judicial Opinions." Minnesota Law Review 86 (2001):
447-96
Pierson v Post, 3 Cai. R. 175, 2 Am. Dec. 264 (N.Y Sup. Ct. 1805)
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chap. 89 ("Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish") (1851)
http://www.americanliterature.com/md/MD89.HTML
(those who are interested in the doctrinal aspects might enjoy reading more at
http://lawprofessors.tvpepad.com/propertv/2006/Q8/its not about t.html)
Further Reading
Benjamin N. Cardozo, “Law and Literature.pdf," in Law and Literature and Other
Essays and Addresses (Harcourt, 1931), pp. 3-40
Robert Schoies, excerpt from Structuralism in Literature (Yale UP, 1974), pp. 42-50 (excerpt
on Andre Jolies)
Albert R. Jonsen & Stephen Toulmin, The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning
(U of California Press, 1988)
Ed Morgan, “The_.Mj.ld,. Mjjd West: Living By a Code in Canadian Law and Film," Law,
Culture, & Humanities 2 (2006): 115-35
Todd Herzog, “Crime Stories - Criminal. Society, and the Modernist Case
Historv.pdfRepresentations 80 (2002): 34-61
Marie-Claire Belleau & Rebecca Johnson, "I Beg to Differ: Interdisciplinary Questions about
Law, Language and Dissent”
James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)
Melville Davisson Post, The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason (1896)
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Oct. 23 - From Speech to Writing Page 1 of2
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Oct. 23 - From Speech to Writing
From Speech to Writing
Delgamuukw v. British Columbia, [1997] 3 S.C.R. 1010
The Countess of Rutland’s Case (1604), 77 E.R. 89
Martin A. Kayman, Lawful Writing - Common Law. Statute and the Properties of
Literature.pdfNew Literary History 27 (1996): 761-83
Herman Meiville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A tory of Wall-Street" (1853)
http://www.bartlebv.eom/129/ (for facsimile of the original publication in Putnam's Magazine,
see http://cdl.library.comell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi7notisidsABK9283-0002-230)
Further Reading
Michael Hancher, “Littera Scripta Manet: Blackstone and Electronic Text.”
Studies in Bibliography 54 (2004): 115-32
Joan Lovisek, “Transmission Difficulties: The Use and Abuse of Oral History in Aboriginal
Claims,” in H.C. Wolfart, ed., Papers of the Thirty-Third Algonquian Conference (U of
Manitoba Press 2002), pp. 251-70
Joanne Bailey, "Voices in Court: lawyers' or litigants'?" Historical Research 74 (2001): 393-
408
Michael P Jordan, “The Evolution of the Genre of Canadian Acts: Sentence Structure and
Complexity," Technostyle 12 (1995): 117-43
Solan, Lawrence M. and Peter M. Tiersma, Speaking of Crime: The Language of Criminal
Justice (U of Chicago Press, 2004)
Peter Goodrich, Legal Discourse: Studies in Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Legal Analysis (St.
Martin's Press, 1987)
Michael Dorland, Law, Rhetoric, and Irony in the Formation of Canadian Civil Culture (U of
Toronto Press, 2002)
J. Edward Chamberlin, "Culture and Anarchy: Truthtelling in Oral and Written
Traditions" (Faculty of Law, U of Toronto, 1996)
C. Michael Macmillan, “Judicial Activism vs. Judicial Restraint: The Role of the Highest
Courts in Official Language Policy in Canada and the United States," American Review of
Canadian Studies 33 (2003): 239-60
Dennis R. Klinck, The Word of the Law: Approaches to Legal Discourse (Carleton UP,
1992)
John M. Conley & William M. O'Barr, Just Words: Law, Language, and Power (U of Chicago
Press, 2d ed., 1997)
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