Law and Literature: Home

This course considers several themes: a reading of how law, juristic principles, and legal actors are represented in literature; an understanding of how writing the law or about the law, in the form of judges’ opinions, lawyers’ briefs and memorandums and court submissions, or reporting of caselaw. Law serves as a most appropriate focus for a study of literature in a wider sense, too, since it mediates claims from different worlds: economic, social, political, and intensely personal.

The larger objective of the course is to facilitate for the participants in the course a critical discussion about the role of the law, the life it rules over and administers, and the complex nature of circumstances that the law must simplify and translate into its own language.

LUMS Law Journal is a peer-reviewed journal of Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law, Lahore University of Management Sciences. The primary aim of the Journal is to provide a forum for scholarly debates amongst law students, faculty, lawyers, judges, practitioners and experts on important legal issues, which may lead to policy reforms.It is intended to stimulate interest in all matters pertaining to law, with an emphasis on matters arising from the relationship of law to other disciplines.

The Law and Politics Society is a student organization at LUMS that hopes to encourage legal and political discourse on national and international issues. It aspires to enable students to understand the application of legal principles, and overcome obstacles in actual legal practice by addressing real-life situations through quality debate. Therefore, the LPS aims to cultivate in students at LUMS and abroad an interest in the professional aspect of law and politics through debates, panel discussions, and moots.