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Law and Aesthetics
Last Updated Date:   30 August 2023


4 Units,  Semester 2

Course Description:
This course aims to explore the multiple relations between law and aesthetics. It builds law as a cultural product that creates its own layer of meaning in the social world and does that through clear aesthetic media. It explores how law’s ideals and workings can be engaged and experienced aesthetically through such media. These include, among others, visual arts, comics, movies, performances. This interrelationship between law and aesthetics reveals then the intrinsically ideological nature of the legal phenomenon and the need to decipher the different mythologies that make of law, lawyers, and legal theory neutral and impartial actors and practices.

Course Convenor: Visiting Assoc Prof Guilherme Vasconcelos Vilaça

Co-teacher(s): NA

Course Codes: LL4499 / LL5499 / LL6499 / LLJ5499

Contact Hours: 9 sessions over 3 weeks: Three, 3hr weekly seminars

Workload: Intensive: Week 1-3: 15 Jan - 2 Feb 2024 [Mon, Wed: 6.30 - 9.30pm; & Fri: 3pm - 6pm]

Mode of Assessment: Class Discussion/Readings - 20% & Research Paper - 80% [Due: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 (9pm)]

Preclusions: LL4499V/LL5499V/LLJ5499V/LL6499V Law and Aesthetics

Prerequisites: NUS Compulsory Core Law Curriculum or common law equivalent.

Examination Date: Different Mode of Examination

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