Dear Sir / Madam
Please could you send out the following information to colleagues.
I have also attached a flyer.
With all good wishes
Helen Thomas
Call for papers:
Law, literature and film symposium
Friday 4th September 2009
Roland Levinsky building
University of Plymouth
Plenary speaker: Melanie Williams
Professor of literary jurisprudence
How does literature engage with aspects of the law?
Why is film preoccupied with lawyers and the law?
How does the law deal with notions of truth and justice?
Literary theory vs. jurisprudence – the case for open or closed interpretation?
Can fiction or film transform legal ideals and values?
What is the impact of law upon literature and film?
What are the pedagogical/interdisciplinary issues?
Abstracts are invited for 20 minute papers on:
• Representations of Law and Lawyers in Film and Literature
• Legal Narratives – Crime, Inheritance, Corporate, Divorce
• Classification and Censorship: Obscenity and Libel
• Textual Analysis vs. Black Letter Law
• Law, Literature, Film: Teaching, Theory and Interpretation
Organisers: Hugo de Rijke, University of Plymouth & Helen Thomas, University College Falmouth.
Abstracts (up to 500 words) and informal enquiries to: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] by 30 May 2009 with subject heading ‘Law, Literature and Film Symposium’.
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