Literature, Law and Financial Distress (Skeel)
Faculty
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| David Arthur Skeel S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law dskeel@law.upenn.edu |
Additional Information
Skills Training
Expository Writing
No
Class meets in person.
Course Continuity
Students are encouraged to stay home if you are ill or experience flu-like symptoms. If you miss a class for any reason, it is still your responsibility to make up the work missed.
I offer the following to students who miss class due to illness:
- Please make an appointment to meet with me and I will review/answer questions about what you missed.
Meeting Times/Location
T 4:30PM - 6:30PM
Tanenbaum Hall 112
Category
Seminar
Credits
3.0
In this seminar, we will read literary works addressing financial distress, such as Charles Dickens’s debtors’ prison novel Little Dorrit, Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice and poems by Emily Dickinson and Ezra Pound. Our literary readings will be framed by a discussion of the law-and-literature movement. We also will read non-fiction works, including Comic Wars: Marvel’s Battle for Survival and The Caesars Palace Coup, as well as scholarly and popular articles about bankruptcy, debt and financial distress. Students will write brief response papers throughout the semester and a longer paper at the end of the course.