Law at the Movies Turning Legal Doctrine into Art

Stanley Fish, Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law, Florida International University

Stanley Fish is Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law at Florida International University in Miami, and Dean Emeritus at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Distinguished Professor of English, Criminal Justice and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In addition to being one of the leading public intellectuals in the US, Fish is an extraordinarily prolific author whose works include over 200 scholarly publications and books, including The First: How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump (2019), Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom (2016), and Versions of Academic Freedom: From Professionalism to Revolution (2014).

Introduction
1. Liberal Heroism and Reasonable Doubt: 12 Angry Men
2. The Law as Blind Machine: The Wrong Man
3. The Law Emerges from Violence: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and High Noon
4. The Law as the Object of Manipulation: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt and Witness for the Prosecution
5. Natural Law vs. Positive Law: Judgment at Nuremberg
6. The Law's Dogma and Religious Dogma: Inherit the Wind
7. Visible and Spectral Evidence: The Crucible
8. Man-made Law as a Refuge from Both the Devil's Assaults and God's Commands: A Man for All Seasons
9. Law as Craft: Anatomy of a Murder
10. Sex, Class, and Class Action: North Country
11. Speech, Radical Innocence, and the Law: Billy Budd
12. The Law and Storytelling: Amistad
13. Free Speech for Good or Ill: The People vs. Larry Flynt and Absence of Malice
14. Poetry Is Against the Law: Howl
Conclusion: No More Delivered than Promised