Module LAW3205 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
LAW3205: Law, Testimony and Trauma
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover all or some of the following topics:
Critical perspectives on the concept of trauma
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the concept of testimony
Critical theory on the relationship between knowledge and power
Case studies:
- - Domestic violence civil proceedings in England and Wales
- - The Hillsborough tragedy and ensuing legal proceedings
- - The murder of Stephen Lawrence and the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry
- - The Grenfell Tower fire and the Grenfell Tower Inquiry
- - The Holocaust and a comparison between the Nuremberg trials and the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem
The majority of contact time will be dedicated to group work on individual research projects.
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 25.5 | 124.5 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled learning and teaching activities | 3 | 3 x 1 hour lectures on concepts, theory and research tools |
| Scheduled learning and teaching activities | 22.5 | 9 x 2.5 hour sessions. Each session will include a 0.5-1 hour lecture and a 1.5-2 hour workshop |
| Guided independent study | 9 | Pair work, 1 hour a week |
| Guided independent study | 15.5 | Reading in preparation for lectures |
| Guided independent study | 10 | Preparation for formative assessment choice of project topic |
| Guided independent study | 25 | Preparation of summative assessment 1 |
| Guided independent study | 25 | Preparation of summative assessment 2 |
| Guided independent study | 40 | Preparation of summative assessment 3 |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Michel Foucault and François Ewald, “Society Must Be Defended”: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 (St Martins Press, 2003).
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Penguin Books, 2017).
Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History (Routledge, 2013).
Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (Hachette UK, 2015).
Monica Casper and Eric Wertheimer, Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life (NYU Press, 2016).
Shoshana Felman, The Juridical Unconscious (Harvard University Press, 2002).
Didier Fassin, “THE HUMANITARIAN POLITICS OF TESTIMONY: Subjectification through Trauma in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict,” Cultural Anthropology 23, no. 3 (2008): 531–58.
Natalie Ohana “The Archaeology of the Courts’ Domestic Violence Discourse: Discourse as a Knowledge-Sustaining System,” Feminists@Law no. 9(2) 2019 https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.913.
Natalie Ohana Beyond Words: Breaking the Boundaries of Legal Language TEDx Talks,TedX GoodenoughCollege 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ydrf7DljfQ&feature=emb_logo.
