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Truth and Beauty: A Legal Translation

Jim Chen
University of Louisville - Louis D. Brandeis School of Law

July 8, 2008

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.

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

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Date posted: July 08, 2008 ; Last revised: July 08, 2008

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Chen, Jim, Truth and Beauty: A Legal Translation (July 8, 2008). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1157093

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James Ming Chen (Contact Author)

University of Louisville - Louis D. Brandeis School of Law ( email )

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