Truth and Beauty: A Legal Translation

Chen, James

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1157093

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Truth and Beauty: A Legal Translation

James Ming Chen

University of Louisville - Louis D. Brandeis School of Law

July 8, 2008

University of Toledo Law Review, Vol. 41, 2010

Abstract:
This essay addresses questions of truth and beauty, of poetry and fidelity, as applied to legal education and ultimately to law. After discussing how law schools can most faithfully translate their teachings to lawyers' real concerns, I shall ponder how the law itself reconciles its duty to truth with its practitioners' longing for beauty.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 7

Keywords: truth, beauty, poetry, literature, fidelity, translation, science, history, Watson, Holmes, FitzGerald, Keats, Khayyam, legal education, law schools

JEL Classification: I2, I20, K00

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Date posted: July 8, 2008 ; Last revised: May 4, 2012

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Chen, James Ming, Truth and Beauty: A Legal Translation (July 8, 2008). University of Toledo Law Review, Vol. 41, 2010. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1157093 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1157093

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