Ethics

Trollope

For three years, Kate Stimpson (graduate school dean emerita) and I have been using novels by Anthony Trollope in our law and literature seminar, which we've taught together for 12 years. More than Dickens or Shakespeare or any of the modern novelists I've read, Trollope captures how lawyers think and the dilemmas they face. This year we are reading Lady Anna. Two years ago we read Orley Farm. Of course, these are long books and can be assigned only in a class like ours. If you ever think of teaching law and literature (or do so now), I commend them. If not, I commend them anyway, for personal pleasure. 

Full post as published by Legal Ethics Forum on January 20, 2011 (boomark / email).