Eating Popcorn like a Lawyer: Featuring Prof. Daniel Weinstock
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Organized in collaboration with the Sciences Po Law School, 鈥楨ating Popcorn like a Lawyer鈥� is a seminar series that seeks to establish a continuous dialogue between the fields of law and film. For each session we invite a prominent scholar to select, discuss and analyze a thought-provoking film.听
For our March session we have invited Prof. Daniel Weinstock. Together we explore Atom Egoyan鈥檚 modern classic (1997). Inspired by Russell Banks鈥� 1989 novel of the same name, the films take us to a small town in British Columbia that is reeling from a tragic school bus accident in which many of its children were killed. Spurred on by an out-of-town lawyer, those affected file a class-action lawsuit in search of truth and damages. The film upends settled convictions, that we may hold, about the relationships between truth and lie on the one hand, and community on the other. It suggests that the latter is rarely built upon clear-eyed, unflinching depictions of the former. Just as a lie is sometimes necessary to preserve community, the truths that justice seeks to unearth can be corrosive.听听
The seminar is open to all who wish to join us in exploring these themes.听The film is to be watched beforehand. It is on CBC Gem.听
Feel free to bring your lunch!听See you soon!听
The Law and Film team:听
Edward van Daalen (捆绑SM社区 Faculty of Law)听
Mathilde Baril-Jannard (捆绑SM社区 Faculty of Law)听
Vittoria Becci (Sciences Po Law School)听
Alexia Katsiginis (Sciences Po Law School)听
eatingpopcornlikealawyer [at] gmail.com听
