REMINDER: CORE Seminar in Legal Theory under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Laurent DE SUTTER: Marietta Auer on "What Is Legal Theory?"(Brussels: VUB, 3 NOV 2022 [HYBRID EVENT])

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What Is Legal Theory?

Introduction

Law and Literature is a vibrant area of interdisciplinary inquiry whose origin is often traced to the publication of James Boyd White’s The Legal Imagination in 1970s America. In recent years, scholars have explored different possibilities for the future development of the interdiscipline, and my presentation is an attempt to contribute to this discussion. I will begin with a brief account of Law and Literature's historical development, and offer some anecdotal comments on my own engagement with it. In the second part of the presentation, I will take a single novel, Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2000), to reflect upon what it might mean to examine the interaction between literature and law in an expanded, global frame.  

Biographical note

Marietta Auer is the director of the Department for Multidisciplinary Theory of Law at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (Frankfurt am Main) and is professor for private law as well as international and interdisciplinary foundations of law at the University of Giessen. She holds degrees in both law and philosophy from the University of Munich as well as LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees from Harvard Law School. 

Practical information

Thursday 3 November 2022, 12 am  

Vrije Universiteit Brussel Room: 4C409 / (contact laurent at de sutter at vub dot be for the Teams-link)

Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering Campus

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