Law Lit: From Atticus Finch to The Practice: A Collection of Great Writing About the Law |  | Creator: Thane Rosenbaum
Publisher: New Press
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Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 3.5 x 0.2
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.803554
ASIN: B003E7EWA0
Publication Date: October 1, 2007
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The fiction and poetry that every literate lawyer will want to know and every armchair attorney will devour.
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."—William Shakespeare
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ayn Rand, Martin Luther King Jr., and Johnny Cash have all written it. Joseph K., Hurricane Carter, Portia, and Bigger Thomas have starred in the most timeless examples of the genre. And now, law school professor and noted novelist Thane Rosenbaum has collected the crusaders and casualties of the law, both real and imagined, in one handsome volume of "law lit."
Some of the finest writers in the world have been tantalized by the law and the nature of judgment, justice, and revenge. With dozens of selections, including prose, poetry, essays, and even TV and film scripts, Law Lit is a dazzling collection that transcends place and time, from ancient Greece to foggy London to the narrow streets of Prague and the spectacle of an Alabama courthouse, offering an enlightening look at the legal system and its practitioners and at how lives can be laid bare before the bench.
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A Joy to Read November 1, 2007
Carole (Pennsylvania)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Law Lit is a joy, a compilation of segments from the best of the best, each dealing with law, its ins & outs, its practitioners & observers. I've purposely tried to read slowly & refrain from approaching many segments at one time in order to extend the pleasure of reading this wonderful collection.
It's the Law That We Love December 29, 2007
Michael P. Maslanka (dallas, texas United States)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Gore Vidal ventured that at a certain age litigation replaces sex. But why? What is it that both attracts and repels us? Lit illuminates the answers. Feel the angels of our better nature by reading the closing argument excerpt from To Kill a Mockingbird; sit with Dr.King as he writes out the whys of disobeying unjust laws in Letter From a Birmingham Jail; feel the straigtforward anguish of those who trangress the law with Cash's Folsom Prison Blues. Thane Rosenbaum's selction are inspired and often off beat(a closing argument from the TV show The Practice or a letter from the Marquis de Sade, in shackles, on the failures of legal punishment.) There is plenty in lit for a second volume---perhaps an excerpt from Measure for Measure or selections from legal noir fiction. No matter. This volume does not give us answers as much as makes us think on what the answers might be. The volume is well packaged. A gift for lawyers or those who love lit or both.
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