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Lawyers and Literature
James R. Elkins
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The assigned reading is an excerpted version of Leslie Hall Pinder, On Double Tracks (Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys Limited, 1990).
The excerpted version was published in the Legal
Studies Forum with Pinder's permission.
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 Leslie Hall Pinder On Becoming a Novelist
When a Lawyer Becomes a Novelist
[39 Legal Stud. F. 1 (2015)]
On Lawyers Who Make Their Life's Work Representing Native Peoples: Bruce Clark, Justice in Paradise (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999):
[Boyce Richardson's dustjacket statement about Justice in Paradise:
"Part memoir, part jurisprudential adventure story, Justice
in Paradise details the battles of a renegade's life defending
the rule of law and Native rights."]
On the Judge as Antagonist: Jonathan Harr, A
Civil Action (New York: Vintage, 1996) (New York: Random House,
1995)
On Judge Theodore Selbie's Limits: As a Jurist and as a Human Being
John William Corrington, a writer whose work we read in the course,
makes the following observation: "The lawyer or the writer begins
to walk the path of wisdom when he comes to realize that his metaphor,
his chosen way of seeing the world, is not co-extensive with reality,
that the concreteness of the law is an illusion generated by potential
force . . . and that alternative ways of seeing, other displays, other
dramas, may, in a given situation, not only supercede his own, but
require that he step outside the legal paradigm altogether and revision
the world from within quite another metaphoric structure." [John
William Corrington, Logos, Lex, and Law, 26 Legal Stud. F.
709, 712 (2002)]
On Old Judges:
Life Tenure for Federal Judges Raises Issues of Senility, Dementia
Extreme aging in the federal judiciary--and the trouble it causes
On the Delgamuukw Case (the case that provides the basis for the Pinder novel):
Aboriginal Rights and Title in Canada After Delgamuukw
Leslie Hall Pinder: Videos
Leslie Hall Pinder Interview [14:46 mins.] Pt2 [6:13 mins.] Pt3 [7:40 mins.] [discussing her book, Bring Me One of Everything]
Book Trailer for Bring Me One of Everything
Leslie Hall Pinder reading from Bring Me One of Everything
Block Party
[An imaginative video about writer's block]
British Columbia Native Peoples: Videos
Canadian Aboriginal
Festival 2011: Drum Songs
We Will Be Free: Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
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