| Description |
xi, 308 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Law, literature, and therapeutic jurisprudence : a multidisciplinary partnership -- Law, literature, and therapeutic criminal justice -- Law, literature, and anti-therapeutic tribunals -- Law, literature, and therapeutic legal education |
| Summary |
"Law and Literature is a venerable interdisciplinary movement. So many literary artists of the past, like Shakespeare, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Melville, Kafka, and Camus, focused on lawyers, legal reasoning, and trials, and this genre is very much alive today. It is also basic that lawyers, both past and present, have relied on poetry, drama, and literature to help elucidate social and legal concepts. Therapeutic Jurisprudence ("TJ") is another important interdisciplinary movement; it began when its pioneers criticized certain aspects of mental health law, which they saw as engendering anti-therapeutic results for the very individuals that it aspired to help. TJ aims to improve the legal system by focusing our attention on humanizing the law and by concerning itself with the emotional, healing, and psychological aspects of law and the legal process." "Problem-solving courts were among the first to embrace TJ, which helped construct a system to maximize healing potential and teach -- |
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judges new approaches to litigants appearing before them. TJ rapidly spread to diverse contexts like criminal, juvenile, and personal injury law. It has also been applied to appellate practice, estate planning, transactional legal skills, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered rights. The TJ and Law and Literature movements are compatible in multiple ways: both celebrate humanity, promote moral and ethical justice, encourage story telling, and tutor us in the idiom of empathetic kindness." "Law, Literature, and Therapeutic Jurisprudence demonstrates how TJ is a valuable tool for analyzing literature and stimulating the legal imagination. It applies law, literature, and TJ to criminal procedure, witch hunts fueled by irrational fear and discrimination, legal education, law practice, and utopianism. While literary artists featured in this book (like Herman Melville, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Miller, W. H. Hudson, and others) pre-date TJ, all of them convey messages that can -- |
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improve our justice system, culture, and society, or help heal the ills of legal education and contemporary law practice." --Book Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Law and literature.
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Law in literature.
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Therapeutic jurisprudence.
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| LC no. |
2009032772 |
| ISBN |
9781594606373 |
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1594606374 (alkaline paper) |
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