Law and Society Seminar, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (Hebert)

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.