This seminar explores the intersection of law and society, expanding the law student’s understanding of the interaction of law and culture. Using representative texts and depending on the semester, issues addressed will include the image of the lawyer and of the legal system in society and culture, the responsibility of the lawyer to others in society, the trial and the public imagination, and the literary interpretation of legal texts.
The instructor of this course has published a course book relevant to this course; see Christine Corcos, The Media Method: Teaching Law with Popular Culture (Carolina Academic Press, 2019). The instructor is also editor-in-chief of a blog that collates information about law and humanities initiatives; see https://hedgehogsandfoxes.org.
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.
History
Subject Area
Law
Geographic Region
West South Central
University or College
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (Hebert)
Funding Status
Public
Endowment (according to NACUBO's U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value and Change* in Endowment Market Value from FY19 to FY20) ($1,000)
955514
Annual Tuition and Mandatory Fees 2021-2022 ($) (Resident; Non-resident, where applicable)
23669; 39109
Course Title
Law and Society Seminar
Terminal Degree of Instructor(s)
JD
Position of Instructor(s)
Associate Professor of Law
Academic Year(s) Active
2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22. This course may be longer running, but coure catalog archives are limited.