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The Law and Humanities Institute
Discover how LHI's groundbreaking efforts shaped an entire interdisciplinary movement.
In 1978, a few law professors and students at Rutgers/Newark Law School devised the idea of establishing an “Institute” to bring the separate disciplines of law and literature into dialogue among scholars, dramatists, lawyers, and poets to discuss how a new field (“Law and Literature”) might be pursued.
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