Author(s): Zoltán TÓTH J.

Title: IRODALMI MŰVEK A JOGI FELSŐOKTATÁSBAN: A „JOG ÉS IRODALOM” PARADIGMA HASZNOSÍTHATÓSÁGA A JOGÁSZKÉPZÉS SORÁN

Source: A. Németh - Y. Orsovics - A. Csehiová - A. Tóth-Bakos (eds.): 12th International Conference of J. Selye University. Pedagogical Sections. Conference Proceedings

ISBN: 978-80-8122-373-0

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36007/3730.2020.137

Publisher: J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia

PY, pages: 2020, 137-146

Published on-line: 2020

Language: hu

Abstract: The jurisprudential stream of “law and literature” was established in the 1970s with the goal of “humanizing” the law. In this sense, literary works, as well as literary studies, can be used methodologically well in legal education, since, according to most authors of this school, literary works can sometimes shed more light on the realities of legal problems than a lawyer thinking about statutes and rigorous dogmatic categories could do. Similarly, insights from literary studies, especially methods of philological hermeneutics, can be used to interpret legal texts. Through all of this, the prospective lawyer can become acquainted with the everyday features of legal issues, gain a deeper insight into the complex system of law and justice, and understand problems that they would not be able to understand from a strictly legal point of view. This will ultimately make it possible to train not only better lawyers but also better people by analyzing literary works. The present paper is about the applicability of this method in general, and about the specific methodological experiment, during which we tested (with the participation of several lecturers) how to process and discuss literary works in legal training at the Faculty of Law of Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church. Based on two years of experience, the experiment is more than encouraging: the students were positive about the new method and we closed successful semesters with the pilot groups.

Keywords: law and literature; narrative jurisprudence; educational methodology; legal education; law and morals; statutory interpretation; instrumentalization of literary works.

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