Law and Humanities

This course purports to offer students an informative and contextualised discussion of major issues of concern to law, culture, and the humanities, and an interdisciplinary understanding of the relationships and interactions of them in shaping and maintaining a law-governed and humanity-oriented sustainable community.  The law is essentially a discipline of human rights and obligations, a discipline concerned with human life and with ways of weaving narratives, rights, justifications, and punishments into texts.  It is a place where orders, distinctions, and divisions are frequently navigated, articulated, shared, and enforced. 

 

Tapping diverse conceptualizations of the indeterminacy frequently associated with the human, this course invites students to engage in contemporary analyses of humans and legal forms and to formulate an insightful perception of humanistic intelligence, including questions as to the role of history and culture in shaping various legal traditions, how language is deployed and understood in technical ways in legal documents, how new ideas of constituting marriages and families re-construct the family law, how and to what extent the legal tradition has been shaped by religion, how legal matters are viewed in the eye of literature, and how philosophical thoughts have been injected into law. 

 

If law and humanities studies direct us to core questions about humanity and the humane, then they also have a long-standing engagement with the inhumane.  Defending against injustice and upholding social justice is one of the core aims of sustainable development.  We are not asking what law, culture, and humanities can do for one another, but what law, culture, and humanities can do for the human being as a whole and how to achieve sustainability by making full use of each component’s merits.  The true interdisciplinary inquiry has the power to bring people together to face the challenges in the new era.

 

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