Peter Brooks COM 523/CHV 523 "Reading Law Reading" Princeton University, Spring 2009 Kerstetter Room, 301 Marx Hall Wednesdays at 4:30
SESSION 1: Reading Legal Actors Reading (February 4)
Memorandum from Jay S. Bybee, Assistant Attorney General, to Alberto R. Gonzales, Counsel to the President, Re: Standards of Conduct for Interrogation under 18 U.S.C. 2340-2340A, August 1, 2002, Part 1
Leocal v. Ashcroft, 543 U.S. 1 (2004)
Antonin Scalia, from A Matter of Interpretation (1997)
Lewis Carroll, "Humpty Dumpty," from Through the Looking Glass
Paul de Man. "The Return to Philology" in Resistance to Theory (1986)
SESSION 2: Textual Interpretation (February 11)
In re Soper's Estate, 264 N.W. 427 (Minn. 1935)
Lynch v. Donnelly, 465 U.S. 668 (1984)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Minister's Black Veil" in Twice-Told Tales Joan Wallach Scott, The Veil (2007), Chapter 5
William Wimsatt, "What to Say About a Poem," from Hateful Contraries (1965)
Paul W. Kahn, The Reign of Law: Marbury v. Madison and the Construction of America, 1-34 (1997)
SESSION 3: Writers and Readers (February 18) Guest Lecturers Kim Lane Scheppele, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Riggs v. Palmer, 115 N.Y. 506 (N.Y. 1889)
District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. __, No. 07-290 (2008)
Ronald Dworkin, "Law as Interpretation" in Critical Inquiry 9 (1982)
Stanley Fish, "Working on the Chain Gang" in Critical Inquiry 9 (1982)
Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971)
California v. Brown, 479 U.S. 538 (1987)
Franz Kafka, "The Judgement"
SESSION 4: Rhetoric, Meaning, Interpretation (February 25) Guest Lecturer Robin West, Georgetown Law Center
Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927)
Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003)
Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992) (Joint Opinion, Part III)
Marianne Constable, "On Not Leaving Law to Lawyers," in Law in the Liberal Arts (2004), ed. Austin Sarat, et al.
Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1 (1958)
Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, 510 U.S. 569 (1994)
SESSION 5: Narrative Transactions (March 4)
Rusk v. Maryland, 406 A.2d 624 (Md. App. 1979)
Maryland v. Rusk, 424 A.2d 720 (Md. 1981)
Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad, 248 NY 339 (N.Y. 1928)
Bumper v. North Carolina, 391 U.S. 543 (1968)
Saki, "The Open Window" (1914)
SESSION 6: Untransacted Narratives (March 11) Guest Lecturer Robert Post, Yale Law School
United States v. Two Obscene Books, 92 F. Supp. 934 (N.D. Ca. 1950)
United States v. West Coast News Co., 228 F. Supp. 171 (W.D. Mich. 1964)
Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U.S. 413 (1966)
United States v. A Motion Picture Entitled "I am Curious Yellow," 404 F.2d 196 (2d Cir. 1968)
Indiana State University, AAUP Bulletin (Spring, 1970), 52-61
Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989)
Virginia v. Black, 538 U.S. 343 (2003)
SESSION 7: Silence and Speech (March 25)
Guest Lecturer Julie Stone Peters, English Department, Harvard University
Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966)
Schmerber v. California, 384 U.S. 757 (1966)
Dickerson v. United States, 530 U.S. 428 (2000)
Missouri v. Seibert, 542 U.S. 600 (2004)
Jorge Luis Borges, "The Shape of the Sword," in Ficciones (1977)
Alec Wilkinson, "Mr. Apology," in Mr. Apology and Other Essays (2003)
SESSION 8: Discourse and Dialogue (April 1) Guest Lecturer Marianne Constable, Rhetoric Department, UC Berkeley
Emile Benveniste, "Subjectivity in Language," in Problems in General Linguistics
Michael Holquist, Dialogism (1990) (excerpt)
Brown v. Louisiana, 383 U.S. 131 (1966)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
SESSION 9: Reading Evidence (April 8)
Wong Sun v. United States, 371 U.S. 471 (1963)
Nix v. Williams, 467 U.S. 431 (1984)
United States v. Feldhacker, 849 F.2d 293 (8th Cir. 1988)
Arthur Conan Doyle, "Silver Blaze" and "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"
Carlo Ginzburg, "Clues: Roots of an Evidentiary Paradigm" in Clues, Myths and the Historical Method (1989)
Sigmund Freud, "Constructions in Analysis" (1938)
SESSION 10: Law, Narrative, and Cultural Authority (April 15)
Brown v. Board of Education I, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) and II, 349 U.S. 294 (1955)
Michael H. et al. v. Gerald D., 491 U.S. 110 (1989)
Hernandez v. Robles, 7 N.Y.3d 338 (NY 2006)
Franz Kafka, "In the Penal Colony"
Stanley Fish, "The Law Wishes to Have a Formal Existence," in There's No Such Thing as Free Speech ... and it's a good thing too (1994)
SESSION 11: Law as Performative (April 22)
Guest Lecturer Patricia J. Williams, Columbia Law School
J.L. Austin, How to Do Things With Words, Lectures 1-3 (1976)
Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568 (1942)
Booth v. Maryland, 482 U.S. 496 (1987)
Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U.S. 808 (1991)
Ledbetter v. Oklahoma, 933 P. 2d 880 (5th Cir. 1997)
Louisiana ex. rel. Francis v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947)
SESSION 12: The Rule of Law (April 29)
Mickens v. Taylor, 240 F.3d 348 (4th Cir. 2001)
Mickens v. Taylor, 535 U.S. 162 (2002)
Cert. petitions in Mickens
Wallace Stevens, "The Idea of Order at Key W est"