Course Credit
ECTS Credit
Course Type
Instructional Language
Programs that can take the course
Law Undergraduate Program
The course is a multidisciplinary course that aims to introduce the perspectives on law in literary texts and to teach legal institutions from a different perspective, which is taught as an elective course in law faculties in America and Europe. One of the main objectives of the course is to show students how literary texts and legal texts such as laws are actually related to each other.
Textbook and / or References
1. Hüseyin Cahit, Literature and Law
2. Turgut Uyar, The Most Beautiful Arabia in the World
3. Constitutional Court Decision No. 1967/9 dated 2/3/1967
4. Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
5. Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking
6. Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland
7. Howard Pyle, Robin Hood
8. Yaşar Kemal, Ince Memed
9. Hasan İzettin Dinamo, Köroglu's Kitchen
10. Sabahattin Ali, Mill
11. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Red Monday
12. Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of the Poor in Ireland from Becoming a Burden to Their Families and Country, and for Making Them Useful to Society
13. Şükrü Erbaş, Why We Must Kill the Peasants
14. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
15. Mark Twain, The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg
16. Nikolay Vasilyeviç Gogol, Dead Souls
17. Memduh Şevket Esendal, Feminist
18. Sophocles, Antigone
19. Alice Walker, The Purple of Colors
20. F. Celalettin, Epidemic
21. Nikolay Vasilyeviç Gogol, Overcoat
22. Orhan Kemal, 72nd Ward
23. Sevgi Soysal, Yıldırım District Women's Ward
The Law and Literature course at the Faculty of Law aims to enable students to think about and discuss various legal issues through literary texts. In the course, law will be taken in its broadest sense in terms of the rules established to provide order, and the texts that will be used to reflect on them will cover all literary genres. The readings that will be assigned each week on specific themes will be functionalized to reflect on and discuss many different issues that are the subject of law. In this way, it is aimed that students will both reflect on concrete, albeit fictional, examples of abstract legal norms and be introduced to some valuable works of literature.
1. Has a historical perspective on the state and law.
2. Has the knowledge that humanity has been in search of justice since its existence.
3. Recognizes the philosophical, moral and social background of law.
4. Has developed the ability to read literary texts in line with legal ethics.
5. Developed different perspectives on issues such as gender, environmental protection, children's rights with the help of literary texts.
6. Has the ability to conduct research based on literary texts and to present his/her research in writing and orally in accordance with the rules of scientific writing.
Week 1: Sources, Method, Distribution of Topics
Week 2: Law and Literature: A General Introduction
Week 3: Literature and Law: Where Do They Intersect and Where Do They Diverge?
Week 4: Teaching Law with Literature
Week 5: Rebellious Literature Against Injustice and the Law
Week 6: Avengers' Literature and the Law
Week 7: Creating Criminals
Week 8: Midterm Paper Presentation
Week 9: The Powerful and Crime
Week 10: Gender and Crime
Week 11: Law in the Face of Society
Week 12: Prison in Literature
Tentative Assesment Methods
• Weekly questions 20 %
• Midterm Paper 35 %
• Final 45 %
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