Summer Seminar: Law and Green Eggs and Ham
Each聽summer, the Paul-Andr茅 Cr茅peau Centre for Private and Comparative Law organizes a series of seminars to promote research of students from 9I制作厂免费 and elsewhere. Attendance is open to all. For more information, please contact the Cr茅peau Centre: centre.crepeau [at] mcgill.ca
Speaker: Phil Lord (9I制作厂免费)
Phil Lord's seminar explores the role and expressions of law in Green Eggs and Ham, the fourth best-selling children鈥檚 book of all time. It frames non-didactic children鈥檚 literature as constitutive of internal behavioural norms in the child-reader. It explores how the constitution of those norms is fundamentally different when it occurs away from the typical interplay of authority and positivism. The paper also casts Sam-I-am, the protagonist, as the lawyer par excellence, embodying such character traits as persistence, open-mindedness, and confidence. By distilling law and psychology down to basic concepts of social interaction, otherness, and agency; it deconstructs to reconstruct, framing children鈥檚 literature as a fundamental source of law.
