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Law, Literature, and War: A Plenary Panel by Justice Stephen G. Breyer; Judge Diane P. Wood; Paul Woodruff; Martha C. Nussbaum is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Law, Literature, and War: A Plenary Panel about?

The volume opens with the plenary panel from the original conference on War in Law and Literature in February 2018, at which Justice Stephen Breyer, Chief Judge Diane Wood, and scholar Paul Woodruff discussed the volume’s themes. The panel was preceded by a production of Euripides’s The Trojan Women (415 BCE) in modern translation, acted by a group of law-school faculty and students, and the three panelists often refer to the production they have just seen. Why The Trojan Women? The editors wanted to begin the conference with a vivid and emotionally rich example of the literature of war. Although Euripides’s play is obviously not about an American war, it was chosen for its universally resonant depiction of war’s devastation, and its effect on both combatants and the women and children they leave behind.

Author

Justice Stephen G. Breyer; Judge Diane P. Wood; Paul Woodruff; Martha C. Nussbaum

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN