Film and literature in the legal classroom

The way in which law and lawyers are portrayed in popular film and literature is a fascinating subject not only for the social scientist but, more importantly, the lawyer and law student. Increasingly in law schools, films and classic literature with a legal theme are being used to identify various aspects of legal activity ranging from legal practice (i.e. intrinsic lawyer skills including legal argument, negotiation and advocacy) to various aspects of the legal process (e.g. the function of the judge and jury) as well as important elements of legal and ethical theory. This article focuses on the Law Through Film and Literature option which is offered to law students in the final year of their LLB (Hons) degree at Greenwich. The aim is to show how law-related film and literature can be a useful tool in the legal classroom, as well as providing some insights into how students have responded and developed as a result of their experiences on the course.

Modern English literature; a selection of the best known works circulated, with which is embodied a guide to popular works of fiction.

Mode of access: Internet.

Zell's popular encyclopedia; a universal dictionary of English language, science, literature, and art.

Mode of access: Internet.

London encyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature and practical mechanics; comprising a popular view of the present state of knowledge.

Mode of access: Internet.

The ballad literature and popular music of the olden time : a history of the ancient songs, ballads, and of the dance tunes of England, with numerous anecdotes and entire ballads; also, a short account of the minstrels /

An expansion of his Collection of national English airs, pub. in 1838-40. Recast by H. E. Wooldridge and pub. in 1893 as Old English popular music.

An explanatory and pronouncing dictionary of the noted names of fiction,: including also familiar pseudonyms, surnames bestowed on eminent men, and analogous popular appellations often referred to in literature and conversation.

Mode of access: Internet.

Library of universal history and popular science; containing a record of the human race from the earliest historical period to the present time; embracing a general survey of the progress of mankind in national and social life, civil government, religion, literature, science and art ...

Issued under various titles.

Museum of foreign literature, science and art.

Edited at first by Robert Walsh, Jr. and then by Eliakim and Squier Littell, the monthly Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art was the leading American eclectic for twenty years. Much of its contents were selected from British magazines; included were reviews, poetry, literary and scientific news, biographical sketches of British authors, lists of new British publications, and articles on literature. The engraved portraits in each number were a popular feature. After 1830, plates were published regularly, and the magazine began to devote a large proportion of its space to serial fiction by Dickens, Reade, Bulwer, Thackeray and other popular English novelists.

French prose of popular science and descriptive literature.

Mode of access: Internet.

Museum of foreign literature and science.

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Handbook of universal literature : from the best and latest authorities: designed for popular reading and as a textbook for schools and colleges.

Mode of access: Internet.

Encyclopædia americana; a popular dictionary of arts, sciences, literature, history, politics, and biography, brought down to the present time; including a copious collection of original articles in American biography; on the basis of the seventh edition of the German conversations-lexicon.

Mode of access: Internet.

The popular encyclopedia; being a general dictionary of arts, sciences, literature, biography, history, and political economy.

Mode of access: Internet.

Encyclopaedia Americana. A popular dictionary of arts, sciences, literature, history, politics and biography, a new ed.; including a copius collection of original articles in American biography; on the basis of the 7th ed., of the German Conversations-lexicon.

Mode of access: Internet.