Law and Literature: An Unnecessarily Suspect Class in the Liberal Arts Component of the Law School Curriculum

Abstract

Posner includes the Law and Economics Movement and the Critical Legal Studies Movement in his analysis of current political opinion in law schools: "The spectrum of political opinion in law schools, which in 1960 occupied a narrow band between mild liberalism and mild conservatism, today runs from Marxism, feminism, and left wing nihilism and anarchism on the left to economic and political libertarianism and Christian fundamentalism on the right."Id. at 766.13.The Law and Literature Movement branches off into the teaching of law and literature and the critical discourse on the role of literary criticism as a tool for legal analysis.14. Beginning with Wigmore, supra note 9, and ending with Morse & Bourguignon, Criminals in

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