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Lecture: Discuss “The Dog Andrew” and “The Juryman.”

Homework: Weekly Memorandum summarizing this week’s lecture and readings.

Read for next class:

Melville, Herman. Billy Budd, Sailor. Project Gutenberg Australia, 2015, chapters 1-12. Project Gutenberg Australia, http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-a-m.html#melville.

Resources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Cheney_Train

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/12/23/107129973.pdf

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/richard-m-nixon/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galsworthy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/avoirdupois

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damocles

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adipose

https://casetext.com/case/muller-v-mckesson-et-al

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Love_Is,_God_Is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assizes

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lugubrious

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/louche

https://books.google.com/books?id=Kck3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT289&lpg=PT289&dq=%22man+catching+a+flea%22&source=bl&ots=B-9Sov1_R5&sig=ACfU3U3qcizxPunUDa2HDk-dJhUVLWTjtA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi7hZCkyYP2AhWmT98KHX7bDhMQ6AF6BAgEEAM#v=onepage&q=%22man%20catching%20a%20flea%22&f=false

https://www.wikiart.org/en/gerard-terborch/the-flea-catcher-boy-with-his-dog

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Student Introductions and Law and Literature Examples Exercise

Discuss Law and Literature as a discipline, and the reading “The Corpus Delicti.”

Introduce Research Paper, Presentation, and Proposal projects.

Homework: Weekly Memorandum summarizing our discussion this week.

Resources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_lawyer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1515/1515-h/1515-h.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Davisson_Post

https://casetext.com/case/ruloff-v-the-people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hale_(jurist)

https://commons.und.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2993&context=ndlr

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/common_law

https://cite.case.law/ny/18/179/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_H._Rulloff

https://cite.case.law/park-crim-rep/5/77/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindwalk