Oregon Law Review : Vol. 88 No. 3, p.905-930 : Being in the Language of Poetry, Being in the Language of Law
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Date
2009
Authors
Joseph, Lawrence
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University of Oregon Law School
Abstract
Being in the Language of Poetry, Being in the Language of Law
was originally presented as the 2008–2009 Colin Ruagh Thomas
O’Fallon Memorial Lecture at the University of Oregon School of
Law, on April 16, 2009. The O’Fallon Memorial Lecture, which is
sponsored by the Oregon Humanities Center, alternates each year
between lectures on law and art in American culture. Professor
Lawrence Joseph is the first lecturer in this series to combine both law
and art as the subjects of his presentation. Professor Joseph brings a
unique perspective to his topics. An eminent legal scholar, and
former practicing lawyer and judicial law clerk, he is also the awardwinning
author of five widely acclaimed books of poetry; of
Lawyerland, a book of creative prose; and of literary essays and other
works of creative prose. Being in the Language of Poetry, Being in
the Language of Law is a personal essay adapted from Professor
Joseph’s lecture. In it, he takes his reader through his various
experiences with the languages of both his vocations and details how
these languages overlap and affect him. The style and composition of
the Essay create the sense of both living in and being intensely
involved in languages both legal and literary. The ultimate effect is,through the portrayal of the languages of law and poetry, a portrait of
language itself.
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26 p.