Law from a Cultural Perspective: syllabus
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Week 1
The Concept of Culture
-W. H. Sewell, Jr. "The Concept(s) of Culture", in Beyond the Cultural Turn (Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt eds., 1999) 35
Week 2
The Concept of Culture (Continued)
-Jeff Lewis, Cultural Studies – The Basics (2002) chapter 1
Week 3:
Law and Culture: The Historical School
-Friedrich Carl von Savigny, "On the Vocation of Our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence", in The Political Thought of the German Romantics, 1793-1815 (H. S. Reiss ed., 1955) 203
Week 4
Law and Culture: The Constitutive Approach
-Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns, "Beyond the Great Divide: Forms of Legal Scholarship and Everyday Life", in Law in Everyday Life (Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns eds., 1993) 21
Week 5
Law and Culture: The Constitutive Approach (Continued)
-Robert W. Gordon, "Critical Legal Histories", 36 Stan. L. Rev. (1984) 57
Week 6
The Law of the Courts as a Cultural System: From Formalism to Culture
-Karl N. Llewellyn, The Common Law Tradition (1960) 34-61, 154-157
Week 7
The Law of the Courts as a Cultural System: Law as Constitutive Rhetoric
-James Boyd White, Heracles’ Bow (1985) 28-44, 107-108, 117-125, 129-134
-James Boyd White, "What Can a Lawyer Learn from Literature?", 102 Harv. L. Rev. (1989) 2014
Week 8
Law as a Field of Cultural Production
-Pierre Bourdieu, "The Force of Law: Toward a Sociology of the Juridical Field", 38 Hastings L. J. 805 (1987)
Week 9
Law as a Field of Cultural Production (Continued)
Week 10
The Role of Common Sense in the Law
-Clifford Geertz, "Common Sense as a Cultural System", in Local Knowledge (1983) 73
-Roland Barths, "Dominici, or the Triumph of Literature", in Mythologies (Annette Lavers trans., 1957) 43
Week 11
Law as a Product of Social Relations
-Karl Marx. The German Ideology (C. J. Arthur Ed., 1970) 39-68
Week 12.
Law at the Product of Cultural Hegemony
-Chantal Mouffe, "Hegemony and Ideology in Gramsci", in Gramsci and Marxist Theory (C. Mouffe ed., 1979)
The Concept of Culture
-W. H. Sewell, Jr. "The Concept(s) of Culture", in Beyond the Cultural Turn (Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt eds., 1999) 35
Week 2
The Concept of Culture (Continued)
-Jeff Lewis, Cultural Studies – The Basics (2002) chapter 1
Week 3:
Law and Culture: The Historical School
-Friedrich Carl von Savigny, "On the Vocation of Our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence", in The Political Thought of the German Romantics, 1793-1815 (H. S. Reiss ed., 1955) 203
Week 4
Law and Culture: The Constitutive Approach
-Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns, "Beyond the Great Divide: Forms of Legal Scholarship and Everyday Life", in Law in Everyday Life (Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns eds., 1993) 21
Week 5
Law and Culture: The Constitutive Approach (Continued)
-Robert W. Gordon, "Critical Legal Histories", 36 Stan. L. Rev. (1984) 57
Week 6
The Law of the Courts as a Cultural System: From Formalism to Culture
-Karl N. Llewellyn, The Common Law Tradition (1960) 34-61, 154-157
Week 7
The Law of the Courts as a Cultural System: Law as Constitutive Rhetoric
-James Boyd White, Heracles’ Bow (1985) 28-44, 107-108, 117-125, 129-134
-James Boyd White, "What Can a Lawyer Learn from Literature?", 102 Harv. L. Rev. (1989) 2014
Week 8
Law as a Field of Cultural Production
-Pierre Bourdieu, "The Force of Law: Toward a Sociology of the Juridical Field", 38 Hastings L. J. 805 (1987)
Week 9
Law as a Field of Cultural Production (Continued)
Week 10
The Role of Common Sense in the Law
-Clifford Geertz, "Common Sense as a Cultural System", in Local Knowledge (1983) 73
-Roland Barths, "Dominici, or the Triumph of Literature", in Mythologies (Annette Lavers trans., 1957) 43
Week 11
Law as a Product of Social Relations
-Karl Marx. The German Ideology (C. J. Arthur Ed., 1970) 39-68
Week 12.
Law at the Product of Cultural Hegemony
-Chantal Mouffe, "Hegemony and Ideology in Gramsci", in Gramsci and Marxist Theory (C. Mouffe ed., 1979)
