S茅minaire d'茅t茅: Law and Green Eggs and Ham
Chaque 茅t茅, le Centre Paul-Andr茅 Cr茅peau de droit priv茅 et compar茅 organise une s茅rie de s茅minaires afin de promouvoir les travaux de recherche des 茅tudiants et des 茅tudiantes de McGill et d鈥檃illeurs. Tout le monde est invit茅 脿 y assister. Pour plus d鈥檌nformations, 茅crivez au centre.crepeau [at] mcgill.ca
Conf茅rencier: Phil Lord (Universit茅 McGill)
[En anglais seulement] Phil Lord's seminar explores the role and expressions of law in Green Eggs and Ham, the fourth best-selling children鈥檚 book of all time. It frames non-didactic children鈥檚 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鈥檚 literature as a fundamental source of law.
