Law Practice
Aug. 13, 2008
All the Law Is a Stage
Literature has always had compelling relevance to the law because of its ability to create and renew empathy and understanding.
Robert L. Bastian Jr.
Partner, Bastian & Dini
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Whittier Law School
Literature's compelling relevance to law is, at once, more basic and broad than many law and literature proponents' heretofore esoteric iterations. Simplicity elaborated, though, exacts complexity.
Literature's principle humanizing and civilizing act is that it demands, creates and renews empathy and understanding. It is not simply empathetic understanding for the plight of others, but for the plight of the other within our own psyches. In a cultur...
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