My new teaching assignment
Holmes The Common Law
Posner Law and Literature
Dissents by Holmes and Frankfurter
PART I: THE LIMITS OF JUSTICE
September 8 Sophocles – Antigone
September 15 Plato Apology
September 22 The Bible – Selections from Exodus, Kings I and II-
Part II: LIBERTY AND LICENSE
September 29 More Utopia
October 6 Shakespeare Measure for Measure
October 13 Milton Areopagitica
Short Paper Due #1 (5 pages)
Part III: TRIALS AND ORDEALS
October 20 Twain Pudd’nhead Wilson
October 27 Melville Billy Budd
November 3 Selection from Dostoievsky The Brothers Karamazov
Kafka, In the Penal Colony from Collected Stories
Part IV: PERFORMANCE AND WITNESS
November 10 Bertolt Brecht The Caucasian Chalk Circle
(Methuen Student Ed.)
Susan Glaspell Jury of Her Peers
November 17 Rebecca West, A Train of Powder
Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
(selections)
November24 – THANKSGIVING
PART V: LITERATURE AND LEGAL CHANGE
December 1 Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart