Harry Potter and the Law, University of Missouri, Kansas City

This course uses the narratives (stories) from the Harry Potter series to explore themes about the role of law and justice in society. The course is designed to help students become more familiar with narrative criticism and the use of narrative for persuasion. The likely instructor of this course has published a book in the same area of Law and Literature study; see Jeffrey E. Thomas, Franklin G. Snyder, Harry Potter and the Law (Carolina Academic Press, 2010) This information has been collected for the Post-Discipline Online Syllabus Database. The database explores the use of literature by schools of professional education in North America. It forms part of a larger project titled Post-Discipline: Literature, Professionalism, and the Crisis of the Humanities, led by Dr Merve Emre with the assistance of Dr Hayley G. Toth. You can find more information about the project at https://postdiscipline.english.ox.ac.uk/. Data was collected and accurate in 2021/22.