Enduring Questions


PAUL ROBESON AS OTHELLO, CIRCA 1942.
Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library

WITH DR. MICHAEL MCSHANE & MR. KESHAV DIMRI

We live in a terribly philosophical time. Questions that once seemed merely academic are now of pressing public urgency.

What is justice? To what degree can law help us to achieve justice? How to resolve tensions between justice and mercy? How should a citizen negotiate a constitutional crisis? How ought we to read the Constitution?

In the aftermath of recent social, political and juridical events many are thinking now again about law and and about justice itself.

This course is nonpartisan; it will attempt to deepen our understanding of perennial questions through a look at some classic writers, primarily Shakespeare but also relevant philosophers and jurists.

 

February 1

Othello

Evidence, Procedure, and Truth.

Prosecutorial Ethics

February 15

Midsummer Night’s Dream:

Loving: Marriage and the State

March 1

Julius Caesar

First Amendment and the Ethics of Dissent

April 5

Measure for Measure

What is Justice?

April 19

Merchant of Venice

Letter vs. Spirit.

Constitutional Interpretations

May 3

King Lear

Law of Nature vs. Law of Society (Plato)

Natural v Positive Law

May 17

The Tempest

CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES.

ROUSSEAU –

Carl Schmitt

 

Cost: $200 (Members Only)

 

First and third Wednesdays, 6-8pm

Venue: The Dallas Institute’s Stroud House

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