Law and Literature

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Description
The text book entitled Law and Literature, authored by Prof. Usha Ganesh and with a Foreword by Former Chief Justice of India, Hon'ble Justice Dipak Misra, is written with meticulous detail to serve the students pursuing law. As a text-book, it is fused in with the text proper, detailed interpretation of the legal aspects in the pieces of literature wisely chosen, trivia to interest the students outside the realm of exhaustive and saturating analysis and questions that shall be food for their thought. The pieces of literature have been chosen with much thought, debate and discussion to provide to the young minds a variety of literature from several genres arraying from drama, short stories, prose to pieces of poetry. Fused in with these are a few legal cases that help us better understand and appreciate literature. We hope that with the introduction of a text-book like this, the students of law would better understand and appreciate literature in its myriad forms.
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Contents
1. Introduction
Module 1 - Drama With Legal Themes
2. The Merchant of Venice-William Shakespeare
3. Justice-John Galsworthy
Module 2 - Short Stories With Legal Themes
4. Before the Law-Franz Kafka
5. Justice is Blind-Thomas Wolfe
6. The Benefit of the Doubt-Jack London
7. The Web of Circumstance-Charles W. Chesnutt
8. The Case for the Defence-Graham Greene
Module 3 - Prose Works With Legal Themes
9. Of Judicature-Francis Bacon
10. Some Reminiscences of the Bar-M. K. Gandhi
11. Why Indian Labour is Determined to Win the War-B. R. Ambedkar
12. The Joy of Reading-A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
13. M.C. Chagla-The Centenary of a Judicial Statesman-V.R. Krishna Iyer
Module 4 - Poetry With Legal Themes
14. Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood-William Wordsworth
15. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening-Robert Frost
16. Where the Mind is Without Fear-Rabindranath Tagore
17. Law, Like Love-W. H. Auden
18. Freedom, Justice and Equality-Lonnie Hicks
Module 5 - Legal Text As Literature For Analytical Study
19. Balaji Raghavan v. Union of India (AIR 1996 SC 770)
20. S. Gopal Reddy v. State of Andhra Pradesh (AIR 1996 SC 2184)
Miscellaneous
Gratitude To The Literary Giants
21. God Sees the Truth but Waits-Leo N. Tolstoy
22. On Laws-Khalil Gibran
23. Telephone Conversation-Wole Soyinka
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Author Details
Usha Ganesh began as a Banking Executive in Chennai. From a young age, she has had a deep-rooted fondness for the English language, particularly, the written word. After contributing for eight years in the banking world, she decided to make a career transition as the General Manager of a renowned English city magazine in Chennai. Her life has taken her to many different places, including a brief tenure as a Professor of English abroad which further fueled her passion for teaching. Thereafter, the journey has been overwhelming and exceptionally satisfying. She has taught English and Legal Language at ILS (Indian Law Society's) Law College for an overwhelming eighteen years. During this stint, she also taught LLM students on "Skill Development" which included training of Soft Skills. She has been one of the resource persons for the 'Diploma in Legislative Drafting at IALS (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies).