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
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
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.
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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