{"id":4596,"date":"2021-04-28T10:04:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=4596"},"modified":"2021-04-28T10:04:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:04:16","slug":"happy-birthday-harper-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2021\/04\/28\/happy-birthday-harper-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Harper Lee!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chipublib.org\/harper-lee-biography\/\">Writer Harper Lee (died 2016) was born on this day in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama<\/a>. Below: a very selective bibliography of works on law in her most famous fictional work, <em>To Kill a Mockingbird.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tim Dare,\u00a0<em>Lawyers, Ethics, and To Kill a Mockingbird,<\/em> 25 Philosophy and Literature 127-141 (2001).<\/p>\n<p>Julia L. Ernst,\u00a0<em>Women in Litigation Literature: The Exoneration of Mayella Ewell in To Kill a Mockingbird,\u00a0<\/em> 47 Akron L. Rev. 1019 (2014-2015).<\/p>\n<p>Claudia Johnson, <em>The Secret Courts of Men&#8217;s Hearts: Code and Law in Harper Lee&#8217;s To Kill a Mockingbird,<\/em> 19 Studies in American Fiction 129-139 (1991).<\/p>\n<p>Steven Lubet,\u00a0<em>Reconstructing Atticus Finch,\u00a0<\/em>97 Mich. L. Rev. 1339-1362 (1999).<\/p>\n<p>Maureen E. Markey,\u00a0<em>Natural Law, Positive Law, and Conflicting Social Norms in Harper Lee&#8217;s To Kill a Mockingbird,<\/em> 32 N.C. Cent. L. Rev. 162 (2009-2010).<\/p>\n<p>John Jay Osborn, Jr.,\u00a0<em>Atticus Finch&#8211;The End of Honor: A Discussion of To Kill a Mockingbird,<\/em> 30 U.S.F. L. Rev. 1139 (1995-1996).<\/p>\n<p>Teresa Godwin Phelps,\u00a0<em>The Margins of Maycomb: A Rereading of To Kill a Mockingbird,<\/em> 45 Ala. L. Rev. 511 (1993-1994). Part of a Symposium on Harper Lee&#8217;s To Kill a Mockingbird, 45 Alabama Law Review (Winter 1994).<\/p>\n<p>Reimagining To Kill a Mockingbird: Family, Community, and the Possibility of Equal Justice Under Law (Austin Sarat and Martha Merrill Umphrey, eds., University of Massachusetts Press, 2013).<\/p>\n<p>Austin Sarat and Martha Merrill Umphrey,\u00a0<em>Temporal Horizons: On the Possibilities of Law and Fatherhood in To Kill a Mockingbird,<\/em> 27 Cultural Studies 30-48 (2012).<\/p>\n<p>R. O. Stephens,\u00a0<em>The Law and the Code in Harper Lee&#8217;s To Kill a Mockingbird,<\/em> 1 Southern Cultures 215 (1995).<\/p>\n<p>Allan W. Vestal,\u00a0<em>The Other Lawyer in the Courtroom: The Prosecutor in To Kill a Mockingbird,\u00a0<\/em>Miss. L.J. 167 (2016-2017).<\/p>\n<p>And on law in <em>Go Set a Watchman.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>M. Crow,\u00a0<em>A Wrinkle in Maycomb County: Law, Equity, and Conscience in Harper Lee&#8217;s Go Set a Watchman,<\/em> 47 Cumb. L. Rev. 37 (2016-2017).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer Harper Lee (died 2016) was born on this day in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. 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