A. Culture (weeks 1 - 2) C. Geertz, Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture, in Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Culture (1973) 3
W. H. Sewell, Jr. The Concept(s) of Culture, in Beyond the Cultural Turn - New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture (Victoria E. Bonnell & Lynn Hunt eds., 1999) 35
A. Swidler, Talk of Love - How Culture Matters (2001) chapter 2
B. Law as Constitutive of Daily Interactions (week 3)
A. Sarat & T. Kearns, Beyond the Great Divide: Forms of Legal Scholarship and Everyday Life, in Law in Everyday Life (A. Sarat & T. Kearns eds., 1993)
C. Law as Constitutive Rhetoric (week 4) J.B. White, Heracles’ Bow (1985) 28-37, 40-44, 107-108, 117-119, 122-134
J.B. White, What Can a Lawyer Learn from Literature?, 102 Harv. L. Rev. 2014, 2014-2037, 2044-2047 (1989)
A. Bickel, The Least Dangerous Branch (1962) 16-28
D. Early Beginnings: From Legal Formalism to Law as Culture (weeks 5 - 6) T. Grey, Langdell's Orthodoxy, 45 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 1 (1983) 1
Karl N. Llewellyn, The Common Law Tradition (1960) chapter 1
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method (1960, 2d rev. ed., J. Weinsheimer & D. Marshall trans., 1993) 101-106, 265-285, 300-311, 324-341, 356-369, 383-389
M. Lasser, Judicial (Self-) Portraits: Judicial Discourse in the French Legal System, 104 Yale L. J. 1325, 1334-1343 (1995)
E. Law as a Cultural Field (Weeks 7- 8) P. Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice (R. Nice trans. 1972, 1977) 177-178, 182-193, 195-197
P. Bourdieu, The Force of Law: Toward a Sociology of the Juridical Field, 38 Hastings L. J. 805 (1987)
F. The Role of Common Sense in the Law (weeks 9-10) C. Geertz, Common Sense as a Cultural System, in C. Geertz, Local Knowledge (1983) 73
R. Barthes, Dominici, or the Triumph of Literature, in R. Barthes, Mythologies (1957, A. Lavers trans. 1972) 43
G. Law and Culture as Means of Political Control (weeks 11-12) K. Marx & F. Engels, The German Ideology (C.J. Arthur ed., 1970) 47-48, 50-52, 58-60, 64-68
A. Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Q. Hoare & G. Nowell Smith eds. trans., 1971) 57-59, 161-165, 181-182, 192-193, 246-247, 258-259, 260, 262-262, 341-342
C. Mouffe, Hegemony and Ideology in Gramsci, in Gramsci and Marxist Theory (C. Mouffe ed., 1979) 219
_____________________ Exchange students
from Ca' Foscari and Iuav are eligible to participate in the program. Please email shss@univiu.org for admission information.
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Extra-curricular activities
Each semester various activities are organized.
-Creative projects
-Movie series
-Night visit to St. Mark's Basilica
-Day trip on Venetian Lagoon
-Trip to Port of Venice
-Site visits related to courses in Venice and its hinterland
AIESEC International Students' Association VIU also collaborates with AIESEC for extra-curricular activities. More info here
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Internships
for Ca' Foscari students:
The School also offers internships to Ca' Foscari students. If you are interested in a 4-month internship please contact the SHSS office: shss@univiu.org
