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Writing Workshop: Law and Creativity, Stanford University

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posted on 2022-07-06, 16:23 authored by Post Discipline AdminPost Discipline Admin
Practicing law is very much a creative enterprise. Effective advocates and counselors provide innovative and thoughtful solutions to complex problems. But there often isn't enough attention devoted in law school either to thinking creatively or to reflecting in a creative way on the issues students confront inside and outside the classroom. This course will respond to this gap by building a bridge between law and the arts, with the goal of helping students hone their ability to think creatively and use disciplined imagination. Law & Creativity will meet twice a week and have dual components designed to inform one another. The first session will be structured as a seminar in which students gather to examine and discuss creative treatments of legal and professional issues in a variety of media (including film, fiction, and nonfiction). The second session will follow the creative-writing workshop model in which students submit their own fiction and creative nonfiction pieces for group discussion. Through the workshop process, students will develop the skills necessary to constructively critique and workshop one another's work, and learn a variety of techniques for improving their own creative writing. Elements used in grading: Class attendance, participation and final paper. Stanford also offers a JD/PhD Law Program in Modern Thought and Literature. For more information, see here: https://law.stanford.edu/education/degrees/joint-degrees-within-stanford-university/law-program-modern-thought-literature/. 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.

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Subject Area

Law

Geographic Region

Pacific

University or College

Stanford University

Funding Status

Private

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)

28948000

Annual Tuition and Mandatory Fees 2021-2022 ($) (Resident; Non-resident, where applicable)

64350

Course Title

Writing Workshop: Law and Creativity

Terminal Degree of Instructor(s)

JD

Position of Instructor(s)

Lecturer in Law

Academic Year(s) Active

2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22

Course Enrolment

12

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