Law and the Humanities at Roma Tre

The blog of the "Law and the Humanities" course of lessons at the Roma Tre University (Law Faculty)

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Friday 21 March 2008

Next Lectures: Stefania Gialdroni

Dear all,
next week we will talk about the relation between Law and Shakespeare. You will receive, as promised, the readings. If you are not in the mailing list, just write me. As usual, the lessons will take place on Wednesday at about 1:45 (but the hall is still not sure), on Thursday at 10:00 (hall 5) and on Friday at 10:00 (hall 5).

Stefania Gialdroni
PhD candidate, Unversity of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) and EHESS, Paris (France)

Abstract: Shakespeare "in Law":

First Lesson: 26.03.2008

Introduction

1. Law in Shakespeare
2. Law in Literature
3. England between Queen Elizabeth I and King James I
4. Equity v. Legalism
5. Was Shakespeare a Lawyer?
6. Conclusion

Second Lesson: 27.03.2008

The Merchant of Venice

1. Plot
2. The “fantastic voyage into the land of interdisciplinarity”
3. The Legality of Usury
4. The Relative Values of Law and Equity and the Quality of Mercy in Justice
5. The Liberty of Contract
6. Discrimination

Third Lesson: 28.03.2008

Measure for Measure

1. Plot
2. The Title
2. Justice and Equity
3. Marriage and Fornication
4. Discrimination
READINGS:

D.J. Kornstein, Fie Upon your Law!, in “Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature”, 5.1 (1993): A Symposium Issue on “The Merchant of Venice”, pp. 35-56

L. Halper, Measure for Measure: “Law, Prerogative, Subversion”, in “Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature”, 13.2 (2001), pp. 221-264

D.J. Kornstein, A Comment on Prof. Halper’s Reading of “Measure for Measure”, in “Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature”, 13.2 (2001), pp. 265-269

Stefania Gialdroni C.V.:

Stefania Gialdroni is a PhD candidate both of the University of Milano-Bicocca (Phd in “Private Law and Legal History”) and of the “European Doctorate in history, sociology, anthropology and philosophy of legal cultures in Europe”. After one year spent at the London School of Economics, she is spending the second year of the European Doctorate at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She received several scholarships from the Max-Planck Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte in Frankfurt am Main, where she attended the International Max-Planck Research School for Comparative Legal History. In 2003 she graduated from the University of Rome Tre, Law Faculty.
The subject of her PhD thesis is the legal structure of the English East India Company during the 17th century.

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