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Constraints in Law and Literature: An exploration of regulation, justice and ethics
Project: Non-funded Project › Projects
10/01/07 → 31/07/08
- Professor Suzanne Ost (Researcher)
The School of Law at the University of Manchester held a one-day colloquium at the University's Conference Centre in conjunction with the Law School, Lancaster University. The main focus of this mini-colloquium was upon what literature reveals about the constraints imposed by legal regulation, justice and ethics
Literature: An exploration of regulation, justice and ethics
Mini colloquium, Chancellors Conference Centre, Manchester, January 11th 2008
10.00 - 10.30am Coffee
1. MORNING SESSION 10.30am - 12.30pm
David Gurnham, Paul Kearns, Suzanne Ost, Introduction and welcome
Law's Freedom: Constraints in Art and Ethics
(a) Paul Kearns, University of Manchester, Art's Demise in the European Court of Human Rights
(b) Suzanne Ost, Lancaster University, Hamlet and the Constraints of Natural Law
(c) Discussion
*** lunch ***
2. AFTERNOON SESSION 1.30pm - 3pm The Lawyer and the Literary Theorist: An Uneasy Relationship?
(a) David Gurnham, University of Manchester, Kafka's The Penal Settlement and Myra Hindley's 'whole life' tariff: two stories of mis-communicated censure
(b) Maria Aristodemou, Birkbeck College,Law, Literature, and "Law and Literature" on the Couch
(c) Discussion
*** coffee ***
3. CLOSING SESSION 3.15pm - 4.45pm
Justice and Constraint through Literature (a) Gary Watt, University of Warwick, Primrose, Skimpole and the Fiction of Free
(b) Marie Hockenhull-Smith, University of Sheffield, Marivaux in 1725, 1766 and 2008: exploring ways in and out from literature to law and society
(c) Discussion
Related research outputs
"But is this law?" The nature of law, sovereign power and justice in Hamlet.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article