LIT-129 Law and Justice, The American Way

It is assumed that one purpose of law is to seek justice, and the US touts itself as a nation of laws. Yet many American literary texts describe legal decisions and systems that result directly in injustice or allow unjust practices. We will read and question texts that address the peculiarly American factors that shape law and common notions of justice, including work by Thoreau and Baldwin, as well as lesser-known writers who experienced slavery, imprisonment, or internment.

Maximum Enrollment

Writing-Intensive (18)

(First Year Course, Writing Intensive, Social Structural and Institutional Hierarchies.)

Credits

1

Notes

(History or SSIH)