Teaching Law Through the Looking Glass of Literature
Law and Literature has a long history at American Universities.
More recently the Law and Literature movement has begun to develop
its own path at European Universities as well. The interest of
European Law schools towards the Law and Literature movement should
be quite evident. As law professors we need to face the question of
the efficacy of our teaching tools. Law and Literature can help us
to convey a better understanding of the role of the law and of
lawyers in an historical perspective. This is especially true when
we approach legal systems that do not belong to the Western Legal
Tradition, but that involve a set of values profoundly rooted in a
particular conception of society. In these cases, Literature can be
used as a key in understanding the social impact of particular
legal institutions, whose nature seem difficult to catch in the eye
of the European scholar. Teaching Law through the looking glass of
Literature may enable us to detect and to convey to students the
deepest relations between law and language, law and culture, law
and society, and to understand the profound values that lie behind
the curtain of the law.
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