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Teaching law and literature across time

Teaching law not as neutral, but as narrative; not as fixed, but as contingent

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Tarren Andrews
Yale University

Tarren Andrew’s transtemporal teaching methodology invites students to become curious about the law and how history is shaped across time. By reading Old English law alongside Indigenous criticism and incorporating multiple kinds of media in conversation with primary sources, students begin to perceive the elasticity of the law. Through reading the law as a genre alongside other literary forms students are equipped to question static categories and imagine new possibilities.

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