Bradin Cormack, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Richard Strier
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226924939
- eISBN:
- 9780226924946
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226924946.003.0016
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies
This chapter is a transcript of a conference that took place at the University of Chicago Law School in May of 2009. Springing from a seminar of Shakespeare and the law taught by Richard Posner, ...
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This chapter is a transcript of a conference that took place at the University of Chicago Law School in May of 2009. Springing from a seminar of Shakespeare and the law taught by Richard Posner, Richard Strier, and Martha Nussbaum, the conference was a rekindling of the law-and-literature movement that seemed to them to have made little progress in recent years. It also includes Justice Stephen Breyer, the guest of the three professors and the selector of the plays that are discussed in the chapter: Hamlet, Measure for Measure, and As You Like It. The chapter, then, consolidates the conversation and discussion generated by this roundtable of thinkers regarding the relationship between law and literature, a timely conference that coincided with the release of the third edition of Judge Posner's Law and Literature.Less
This chapter is a transcript of a conference that took place at the University of Chicago Law School in May of 2009. Springing from a seminar of Shakespeare and the law taught by Richard Posner, Richard Strier, and Martha Nussbaum, the conference was a rekindling of the law-and-literature movement that seemed to them to have made little progress in recent years. It also includes Justice Stephen Breyer, the guest of the three professors and the selector of the plays that are discussed in the chapter: Hamlet, Measure for Measure, and As You Like It. The chapter, then, consolidates the conversation and discussion generated by this roundtable of thinkers regarding the relationship between law and literature, a timely conference that coincided with the release of the third edition of Judge Posner's Law and Literature.
Norman Dorsen
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814770122
- eISBN:
- 9780814762806
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814770122.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law
This book presents the fourth collection of the James Madison lectures delivered at the New York University School of Law, offering thoughtful examinations of an array of topics on civil liberties by ...
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This book presents the fourth collection of the James Madison lectures delivered at the New York University School of Law, offering thoughtful examinations of an array of topics on civil liberties by a distinguished group of federal judges, including Justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court. The result is a fascinating look into the minds of the judges who interpret, apply, and give meaning to the U.S. “embattled Constitution.” This book explores wide-ranging issues. Are today's public schools racially segregated? To what extent can the federal courts apply the Bill of Rights without legislative guidance? And what are the criteria for the highest standards of judging and constitutional interpretation? The book also discusses how and why the U.S. Constitution came to be embattled, shining a spotlight on the current polarization in both the Supreme Court and the American body politic and offering careful and informed analysis of how to bridge these divides.Less
This book presents the fourth collection of the James Madison lectures delivered at the New York University School of Law, offering thoughtful examinations of an array of topics on civil liberties by a distinguished group of federal judges, including Justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court. The result is a fascinating look into the minds of the judges who interpret, apply, and give meaning to the U.S. “embattled Constitution.” This book explores wide-ranging issues. Are today's public schools racially segregated? To what extent can the federal courts apply the Bill of Rights without legislative guidance? And what are the criteria for the highest standards of judging and constitutional interpretation? The book also discusses how and why the U.S. Constitution came to be embattled, shining a spotlight on the current polarization in both the Supreme Court and the American body politic and offering careful and informed analysis of how to bridge these divides.
