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DESCRIPTION:A Great Trials Lecture with Prof. Peter Gibian (Dept of English
 )  Herman Melville’s “Bartleby\, the Scrivener” takes place not in a court
 room but in the office of a Wall Street law firm. This experimental tale d
 oesn’t narrate a literal trial\, then\, but its overall effect is to put t
 he Wall Street law office itself—an epitome of dominant mid-nineteenth-cen
 tury American notions of law\, economics\, politics\, and cultural authori
 ty—on trial.  When Bartleby “occupies” the Wall Street law office\, breaki
 ng down the literal and figurative walls that define the divisions in this
  stratified society\, andbreaking up the work routine of legal practice by
 refusing to copy the documents that reinforce the status quo of property r
 elations\, his small\, vaguely Thoreauvian gestures of passive resistance 
 threaten to undermine the foundations of the world of his boss\, the lawye
 r who narrates this story.  What begins as a minor dispute about conventio
 nal assumptions in contemporary law reverberates outward\, leading the cau
 tious\, conformist\, uncurious lawyer-narrator into a life crisis—a searin
 g self-examination in which he begins to question the bases of his vision 
 of spiritual\, ethical\, and legal judgment and his own implication in the
  dynamics of the larger Wall Street world.  This lecture has been accredit
 ed by the Barreau du Québec for 1 hour of Continuing Legal Education: no. 
 10060910.  Great Trials III Lecture Series: Private Lives\, Public Law  Or
 ganized by the Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI)\, t
 he Great Trials lecture series considers a  collection of  history-making 
 trials across time and  examines the  social and political  contexts in wh
 ich they took place as  well as  their cultural  consequences. The series 
 takes the position that  ‘law’  happens as much  outside the courtroom as 
 it does within it\, and  that  each of these  pivotal events stands as tes
 tament to the ways in  which  constructions of  authority\, law\, and just
 ice have informed  cultural  consciousness across  centuries.  Fees: $60 f
 or the series of five lectures\, or $15 for individual lectures.  Registra
 tion: www.mcgill.ca/iplai/events/great-trials-lecture-series/great-trials-
 registration 
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LOCATION:CA\, Westmount Public Library\, 4574 Sherbrooke Street West\, West
 mount\, QC
SUMMARY:The Trial of Wall Street
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