Séminaire d'été: Law and Green Eggs and Ham
Chaque été, le Centre Paul-André Crépeau de droit privé et comparé organise une série de séminaires afin de promouvoir les travaux de recherche des étudiants et des étudiantes de Ã山ǿ¼é et d’ailleurs. Tout le monde est invité à y assister. Pour plus d’informations, écrivez au centre.crepeau [at] mcgill.ca
Conférencier: Phil Lord (Université Ã山ǿ¼é)
[En anglais seulement] Phil Lord's seminar explores the role and expressions of law in Green Eggs and Ham, the fourth best-selling children’s book of all time. It frames non-didactic children’s 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’s literature as a fundamental source of law.