The course deals with the relationship between Law and Literature with a specific focus on the passages from the following works: Bleak House (Dickens); The Trial (Kafka); Alice in Wonderland (Carroll); Othello (Shakespeare); Pinocchio (Collodi).

Erasmus Students:

Part I Perspectives on the History and Signifiance of the Scholarship in Law and Humanities: Three Views

A Humanities of Resistance. Fragments for a Legal History of Humanity
Three Tales of Two Texts. An Introduction to Law and the Humanities
Law, Culture, and Humilty

Part II Ideas of Justice

Biblical Justice: The Passione of the God of Justice
Ideas of Justice: Natural and Human
Ideas of Justice: Positive
Postmodern Justice

Part III Imagining the Law

Imagining the Law: The Novel
Imagining Law as Film (Representation without Reference?)
Law and Television: Screen Phenomena and Captive Audiences
Imaging the Law: Art

Testi (frequentanti):
- Bruno Cavallone, La borsa di Miss Flite, Adelphi, Milano, 2016.

Testi (non frequentanti):
- Salvatore Satta, Il mistero del processo, Adelphi, Milano, 1994.
- Bruno Cavallone, La borsa di Miss Flite, Adelphi, Milano, 2016.

Testi (Studenti Erasmus):

- A. Sarat, M. Anderson, C.O. Frank (eds.), Law and the Humanities. An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009 (pp. 1-312)