Fall 2025
Professor(s):
Amanda Watson (VISITING)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Law And Society/ Interdisciplinary
Time: 9:00a-10:30a MW Location:
Course Outline: This class uses literary texts to explore concepts in law such as justice, punishment, reward, and order. Instead of looking at these topics through the laws themselves, we will use texts to view them through the lens of those they impact. The texts will seek to help find the intersection of law and humanity through literature, from poetry to novel, from Shakespeare to Kingsolver.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Synchronous Online) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. Contrary to the UH information, some student materials may not be available online, such as an assigned casebook. A physical classroom may be assigned for this course to give students a location in the Law Center to join the virtual class sessions. If the course has a final examination, the final and any other assessment for the course, such as a mid-term exam, will be conducted without the need to physically come to the Law Center, such as, for example, via the EBB portal as a take home exam or under remote proctoring.
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Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: Yes
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: Yes
Pass-Fail Student Election: Conditional Availability (not for required credits)
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
