This semester a series of meetings on law and literature will take place in Paris at the Centre "Yan Thomas" - EHESS (http://cenj.ehess.fr/).
The title of the seminar is:
Droit et littérature. La norme entre commandement et récit
It is organized by Emanuele Coccia and Michele Spanò.
All information about the calendar and a detailed description of the topic here.
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ReplyDeleteThis is one of my favourite description of Lady Justice (in literature!)
ReplyDeleteTHE PRESS of the Spoon River Clarion was wrecked,
And I was tarred and feathered,
For publishing this on the day the Anarchists were hanged in Chicago:
“I saw a beautiful woman with bandaged eyes
Standing on the steps of a marble temple. 5
Great multitudes passed in front of her,
Lifting their faces to her imploringly.
In her left hand she held a sword.
She was brandishing the sword,
Sometimes striking a child, again a laborer, 10
Again a slinking woman, again a lunatic.
In her right hand she held a scale;
Into the scale pieces of gold were tossed
By those who dodged the strokes of the sword.
A man in a black gown read from a manuscript: 15
‘She is no respecter of persons.’
Then a youth wearing a red cap
Leaped to her side and snatched away the bandage.
And lo, the lashes had been eaten away
From the oozy eye-lids; 20
The eye-balls were seared with a milky mucus;
The madness of a dying soul
Was written on her face—
But the multitude saw why she wore the bandage.”
Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950) "Spoon River Anthology" 1916
125. Carl Hamblin