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219.81 sec. 001 - Collaborative Research Seminar: Law & Humanities (Spring 2024)
Instructor: Leti Volpp (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only | profile)
Instructor: Bryan Wagner
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Units: 2
Grading Designation: Graded
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meeting:
Th 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: Law 141
From January 18, 2024
To March 21, 2024
Course End: March 21, 2024
Class Number: 33168
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 14
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 20
As of: 04/27 11:56 PM
This seminar engages with the interdisciplinary field of law and humanities. By bringing interpretive approaches associated with the humanities to bear on legal documents and legal sites and by drawing law into sustained interaction with art and expression in a range of mediums, we will treat the law not as a rational and self-regulating domain apart from society but instead as a force refracted throughout society, often revealing itself most powerfully in realms where it is supposed to be absent. By looking to art and music, poetry and philosophy, folklore and popular culture, as well as to law, this course explores questions that are central to both law and humanities-including fundamental questions of who we are, what to do, and how we know. We will pay particular attention to themes of crime and punishment, migration and citizenship, trauma and testimony, and personhood and property. The course will include a series of lectures and discussions with leading thinkers in law and humanities.
This collaborative research seminar is cross-listed between the Division of Arts and Humanities and the Law School with the following goals. The course will help students to:
Work across disciplinary boundaries;
Integrate methods from within and outside the arts and humanities;
Foster collaborative research skills and teamwork;
Develop advanced presentation skills.
Course grading will be based upon participation, weekly reflection papers, and a collaborative symposium presentation.
This is a seminar team-taught by Professors Bryan Wagner in English, and Leti Volpp in Law. We anticipate that students will enroll from an array of departments across campus. The course builds upon a long-standing effort to bring together scholars of law and humanities on the UC Berkeley campus, as exemplified by the volume, Constable, Volpp and Wagner, eds., Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Justice Beyond and Between (Fordham University Press, 2019).
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Exam Notes: (None) Class requires a series of papers, assignments, or presentations throughout the semester
Course Category: Law in Cultural Perspective
This course is listed in the following sub-categories:
Legal History
Race and Law
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