Ranging across disciplines, these courses bring collaborative approaches and team-teaching to graduate studies in the humanities. Teams include faculty members from both the Division of Arts & Humanities and other disciplines. In the first half of the semester, explorations and readings are organized by the team of faculty members. In the second half, the graduate students form small cohorts, each tasked with collaborating on a research paper, white paper, or conference panel related to a case study. Where possible, case studies engage outside experts such as editors, curators, and policy analysts.

This seminar understands law as a force that often reveals itself in realms in which it is supposed to be absent. By considering poetry and theater, painting and photography, folklore and popular culture along with more conventional legal documents, we will explore questions that are central to both law and humanities—including who we are, what to do, and how we know. We will be thinking about a range of topics, which may include: crime and punishment; personhood and property; language and medium; representation and interpretation; status and contract; violence, trauma, and testimony; retrospection, clues, and conjecture; and migration, borders, and citizenship. Keywords: law, culture, literature, crime, citizenship

This course will meet at the Law School in Room 141.

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