Reading Law & More by https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw en-us 2018-09-27 10:18:02 UTC 2026-03-15 03:28:04 UTC hello@padlet.com If you would like to know a little more about Franz Kafka here is the link to a short biography from the Ecyclopedia Brittanica jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/286423238 2018-09-27 10:31:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/286423238 "Before the Law" - session 1 17 October 2018 jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/286424164 Here is the link to a copy of the Kafka story  ]]> 2018-09-27 10:35:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/286424164 WELCOME jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/286426825 You are invited to join other students and members of the law staff for coffee and a read.
We will meet to talk about the ideas and impressions evoked by text introduced by the convenor.



]]> 2018-09-27 10:45:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/286426825 Why people like to read jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/286443570 Here is a link to Pew Research on e-reading published in 2012 summarising the reasons why people liked reading books.  Why not add a comment about what you like best about reading books ]]> 2018-09-27 11:46:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/286443570 Jane Austen v Emily Bronte jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/286447529 Here is a link to youtube recording of a debate discussing the comepting merits of Jane Austen and Emily Bronte...have a listen and post a comment ]]> 2018-09-27 11:57:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/286447529 Programme jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/286451031 Each event will be held at the Club de Havilland
http://conferencehertfordshire.co.uk/venues/club-de-havilland/

Attedance is FREE but limited to 25. Light refreshments will be provided. 

Please book your place for each session using the unique eventbrite links for each event.

If you have any general questions please contact James Ressel on j.ressel@herts.ac.uk ]]> 2018-09-27 12:05:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/286451031 To Kill a Mockingbird - session 3 jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/286857503 Here is the link to a full text copy of the book]]> 2018-09-28 09:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/286857503 Suggest a reading. jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/286891139 Here you can post your ideas for future readings.]]> 2018-09-28 11:32:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/286891139 Session 2. 23 October 2018 2:30-4:30 pm jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/290372655 Jurassic Park is a 1990 science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton. It presents the collapse of an amusement park showcasing genetically recreated dinosaurs to illustrate the mathematical concept of chaos theory and its real world implications.
Whilst its depiction of scenes involving escaped dinosaurs are gripping and exciting, perhaps its most memorable aspect is the subtle way in which it acts as a cautionary tale about genetic engineering, climate change, and scientific power. 
Henry Pearce  h.pearce@herts.ac.uk

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]]> 2018-10-08 16:10:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/290372655 Jurassic Park - Session 2 jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/290375991 Here is the link to the extracts we will be looking at on 23 October 2018.
Henry Pearce h.pearce@herts.ac.uk

]]> 2018-10-08 16:18:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/290375991 Session 1. 17 October 2018 12 noon to 2 pm jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/290391780  Before the Law: Franz Kafka  http://www.kafka-online.info/before-the-law.html A very short story about a man from the country seeking to striving after law. As he is dying he asks the gatekeeper why no one else has tried in all these years. The gatekeeper shouts that “tells him that Here no one else can gain entry, since this entrance was assigned only to you. I’m going now to close it. James Ressel    j.ressel@herts.ac.uk  

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]]> 2018-10-08 16:49:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/290391780 FIRST SEMESTER EVENTS jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/290395692 Below is the list of the texts and meeting dates planned in Semester A.

17 October 2018 12-2pm James Ressel "Before the Law" by Franz Kafka
j.ressel@herts.ac.uk

23 October 2018 2:30-4:30pm  Henry Pearce on "Jurrasic Park" by Michale Crichton
h.pearce@herts.ac.uk

7 November 2018 12-2 pm  Heather Crook 'To Kill a Mockingird' by Harper Lee
h.crook@herts.ac.uk 

21 November 2018 12:30-2:30 pm  Penny Carey on 'The Salt Path' by Raynor Winn
p.carey@herts.ac.uk     

5 December 2018 4-6 pm Karen Clark "Sea Story" by A S Byatt
k.clarke@herts.ac.uk

Each session has its own colour coded resource page below with a link to the reading to be discussed, link to the booking page to reserve your place, and the convener's contact details.  ]]> 2018-10-08 16:58:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/290395692 Session 5 - 5 December 2018 4- 6pm k_clark2 https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/290582417 Sea Story: AS Byatt. This short piece is intense, spans poetry and prose, evokes the seaside, considers love and includes words I had never heard before. I also admire that at 82 AS Byatt considers it essential to keep writing: you might like to read this interview

Karen Clark k.clark@herts.ac.uk 

You can access an on-line copy by following this link. 

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]]> 2018-10-09 06:59:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/290582417 Session 2 - 20 February 2019 Albert Camus & the Death Penalty jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/292101826 Here is a link to the English translation of an extract 'Resistance, Rebellion and Death' by Albert Camus published in 1966. We will discuss the argumetns for and against the death penalty.

To book a FREE place please follow this link
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 ]]> 2018-10-12 11:09:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/292101826 A S Byatt jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/292103818 Here is a link to A S Byatt's  home page if you would wnat to find out a little more about the author.]]> 2018-10-12 11:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/292103818 Black History Month - UH on line texts jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/292105236 Here is the link to the amazing range of resources collected by UH Learning Resources posted on the online Talis Reading List. There you will find links to electronic copies of huge selection of fascinating books, some based on based on Obama’s summer reading list.
https://rl.talis.com/3/herts/lists/2ED3833A-777D-59D0-44AB-27C41AC60047.html?lang=en-GB&login=1]]> 2018-10-12 11:25:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/292105236 Nothing Gained by Overcrowding jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/292363024 Nothing gained by overcrowding! How the garden city type of development may benefit both owner and occupier
by Unwin, Raymond, Sir, 1863-1940; Garden cities and town planning association, London



 Publication date 1912
 Topics City planning
Publisher London, P.S. King & son, for the Garden cities & town planning association
Collection cornell; americana
Digitizing sponsor MSN
Contributor Cornell University Library

]]> 2018-10-12 22:16:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/292363024 Session 3 - 7 November 2018 12noon - 2 pm jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/292948834 'To Kill a Mockingbird' : Can you feel sorry for a woman who wrongly accuses a man of rape?
 
Written by Harper Lee and published in 1960, ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ is often seen as a children’s coming of age saga or as a commentary on racial injustice in the deep south in the 1930s. The story is narrated by an adult looking back on a three-year period of her childhood through her years as a school girl nicknamed Scout, who recounts various encounters with people in her home town Maycomb, Alabama. Scout and her older brother Jem, become obsessed with a reclusive neighbour called Boo (Arthur) Radley and under the guidance of their father, Atticus and African-American housekeeper, Calpurnia they interact with their various neighbours. 
 
Scout and Jem are exposed to society’s racism and other injustices through the trial of Tom Robinson, an African-American man who is wrongly accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Atticus, the lawyer who defends Tom Robinson, faces significant animosity from the bigoted people of Maycomb County including his sister, for his struggle to procure an acquittal. Tom Robinson is convicted and killed by the guards in his prison. Bob Ewell, Mayella’s brutal father who forced her to falsely accuse Tom Robinson, seeks revenge against Jem and Scout by trying to murder them, but they are saved by Boo (Arthur) Radley who kills Bob Ewell with a kitchen knife.
 
Many themes abound in this novel, but the extract chosen for close analysis in the ‘Law and More’ session 3, is the (edited) trial scene which is copied here (please read before the book club). A black man is accused of rape by a white woman. We will be exploring this through the prism of their respective positions of powerlessness. Read the novel if you want to (also attached to this site), but please don't feel you have to in order to join in this session. Heather Crook h.crook@herts.ac.uk

To book a FRRE place please follow the link
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]]> 2018-10-15 17:10:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/292948834 To Kill a Mockingbird - Session 3 jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/292977028 Here is a link to the extract we will be looking at on 7 November 2018.

Heather Crook h.crook@herts.ac.uk]]> 2018-10-15 17:51:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/292977028 Good reason to build Bookcases. jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/295719422 Value of owning more books that you can read - this story speaks to me. Interior design experts tell me I have too many books in my house. They say that books collect dust, are static, that is until you turn the pages, hear the rustle of paper and feel the smell the pages, They say that books just clutter the ‘space’ – vacant empty white space of course is what  they mean. I am afraid that I do not agree. Books are expression of our collective human imagination, history, creativity, experience - a way we humans share knowledge, insights, humour and have fun. That is why I have many bookshelves with many books I have not read as yet!  
 

]]> 2018-10-22 22:31:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/295719422 Nicaragua v US jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/296376764 Here is a copy of the judgment in the International Court of Justice regarding US military and paramilitary activities in Nicaragua handed down on 27 June 1986 ]]> 2018-10-24 11:44:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/296376764 Session 4 - 21 November 2018 12:30 - 2:30 pm jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/302493763 The Salt Path - by Raynor Winn is a powerful story about how precarious a ‘normal’ and seemingly successful  life can be – and how in a very short space of time a couple lose their home, their business, and one of them their health. 
Penny Carey
P.Carey@herts.ac.uk
Dean of Hertfordshire Law School

To book a FREE place please follow this link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reading-law-more-the-salt-path-tickets-52401155266
 
]]> 2018-11-09 10:42:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/302493763 The Salt Path - Session 4 21 November 2018 jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/302514560 Here is a link to the pdf copies of the extracts we will look at in this session.

Penny Carey
P.Carey@herts.ac.uk ]]> 2018-11-09 12:09:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/302514560 Raynor Winn jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/302515821 Here is a link to an interview with the authro of 'The Salt Path']]> 2018-11-09 12:15:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/302515821 Sea Story - 5 December 2018 jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/308231654 Here is a link to the word document version of the story we will be discussing on 5 December at 4 pm ]]> 2018-11-27 12:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/308231654 Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal 1739 jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/308235302 Here is a copy of a provocative 'proposal' writen by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Do not worry he was a literay satirist. ]]> 2018-11-27 12:59:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/308235302 SEMESTER TWO EVENTS 2019 jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/324984846 Below is the list of events and readinsgs scheduled for the second semester.

 | Wed 30 January 4-6 pm  Room N108 | Screening “I, Daniel Blake” (2016) Dir: Ken Loach   
     
| Wed 20 February 4-6pm  |    Resistance, Rebellion and Death – Albert Camus (1961). Hecriticises capital punishment ("Reflections on the Guillotine") which is the text we will look at.

| Wed 27 February 4 - 6 pm Room R118 | The Little Prince -  Antoine Saint-Exupery -  a story which contains reflections on the themes of friendship, love, imagination and the significance of the indidividual in the world.

| Wed 6 March 4-6pm | De Havilland Club | Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Chronicle of Death Foretold -
For the meeting pages 29 and 30 are relevant starting from the beginning of a chapter 3 with “The lawyer stood by the thesis” until “we just came to sharpen our knives”.
 

 | Wed 20 March 4-6pm |  Shoshana Zuboff,  “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” (2019) Tech companies have shown themselves to be increasingly cavalier with our personal data. Are we handing over too much information?
 
| Wed 3 April 4-6pm | Screening “The Castle” (1997) Dir: Rob Sitch An Austrailian QC makes a persuasive case that the Kerrigans have the right to just terms of compensation for acquisition of property and that a family home than just a structure of bricks and mortar, but a home built with love and shared memories. ]]> 2019-01-28 15:46:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/324984846 Session 1 - 30 January 2019 @ 4 pm in Room N 108 - "I, Daniel Blake" jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/324991727 Screening of Ken Loache's powerful and moving film.
Convened by Heather Crook.

To book a FREE place  please follow this link:
 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/i-daniel-blake-tickets-55519531413]]> 2019-01-28 15:58:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/324991727 Session 3 - 27 February 2019 - Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince. 4 pm Room R118 jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/333582152 Here is pdf copy of the entire book, which you may find interesting to read. In the group we will be discussing Chapter 21 pp 63- 67 "It was then that the fox appeared..."

To book a FREE place please follow this link
 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-little-prince-tickets-57090043858]]> 2019-02-21 12:01:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/333582152 Session 4 - 6 March @ 4 pm De Havilland Club jressel https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/336789478  Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Chronicle of Death Foretold

Here is a pdf copy of Marquez's famous book. For the meeting pages 29 and 30 are relevant starting from the beginning of a chapter 3 with “The lawyer stood by the thesis” until “we just came to sharpen our knives”. 

To book a FREE place please follow this link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gabriel-garcia-marquez-chronicle-of-death-foretold-tickets-57783302413]]> 2019-03-01 10:39:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jressel/Herts_readinglaw/wish/336789478