Law lit : from Atticus Finch to The practice : a collection of great writing about the law / edited by Thane Rosenbaum.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosenbaum, Thane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Literary collections.

Law.

Justice, Administration of--Literary collections.

Justice, Administration of.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xvi, 296 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2007.

Summary:

With dozens of selections from writers as diverse as Leo Tolstoy, Sophocles, and Mark Twain, this anthology of writings is a dazzling collection that offers an enlightening look at the legal system and its practitioners.

Contents:

Part I The Law Elevated 1

from To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee 3

from Presumed Innocent / Scott Turow 6

from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson / Mark Twain 8

from Native Son / Richard Wright 14

from The Nature of the Judicial Process / Benjamin N. Cardozo 20

from The Verdict / David Mamet 25

Opinion from Schmidt v. United States / Judge Learned Hand 26

from "J'accuse" / Emile Zola 29

Part II Lawless Law 35

from 'A Vendetta" / Guy de Maupassant 37

from The Count of Monte Cristo / Alexandre Dumas 42

from A Time to Kill / Akiva Goldsman, John Grisham 45

Part III The Law and Liberty 47

from The Trial / Franz Kafka 49

from Civil Disobedience / Henry David Thoreau 53

from "The Grande Lettre" / Marquis de Sade 55

from The Book of Daniel / E.L. Doctorow 58

from "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" / Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 60

from The Scarlet Letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne 65

from Intruder in the Dust / William Faulkner 69

from The Handmaid's Tale / Margaret Atwood 73

from The Fountainhead / Ayn Rand 79

Part IV The Law Made Low 85

From Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison / Michel Foucault 87

from Les Miserables / Victor Hugo 90

from "Hurricane" / Bob Dylan, Jacques Levy 95

"Folsom Prison Blues" / Johnny Cash 98

from The Stranger / Albert Camus 100

from Billy Budd, Sailor / Herman Melville 105

from The Book of Daniel / E.L. Doctorow 114

from An American Tragedy / Theodore Dreiser 117

from Lucky / Alice Sebold 123

Part V The Law Laborious 133

from Bleak House / Charles Dickens 135

from "Bartleby, the Scrivener" / Herman Melville 142

from The Practice / David E. Kelley 148

from One L / Scott Turow 150

from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll 157

from The Floating Opera / John Barth 163

Part VI The Lawyer as Lout 171

"The Lawyers Know Too Much" / Carl Sandburg 173

from A Doll's House / Henrik Ibsen 175

from "The Self-seeker" / Robert Frost 180

from The Death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy 188

from Bleak House / Charles Dickens 190

from The Sweet Hereafter / Russell Banks 196

Part VII The Law and the Loophole 205

from Presumed Innocent / Scott Turow 207

"After Twenty Years" / O. Henry 209

"The Hidden Law" / W.H. Auden 213

"The Lawyers' Ways" / Paul Laurence Dunbar 214

from The Merchant of Venice / William Shakespeare 216

from A Few Good Men / Aaron Sorkin 222

Part VIII Layman's Law 231

from "A Jury of Her Peers" / Susan Glaspell 233

from "Thank You, M'am" / Langston Hughes 247

from A Civil Action / Jonathan Harr 251

from "An Apology" / Bernard Malamud 255

Part IX The Law and Longing 263

from The Hills Beyond / Thomas Wolfe 265

from The Book of Daniel / E.L. Doctorow 270

from The Brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Dostoevsky 273

from Oedipus, the King / Sophocles 281

from Inherit the Wind / Jerome Lawrence, Robert Edwin Lee 284.

ISBN:

9781595581945

OCLC:

137324996