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12 Oct 2015, 8:07 am
This is the first law review article to analyze Harper Lee's novel Go Set a Watchman and in particular its portrayal of the famed attorney Atticus Finch. [read post]
11 Jul 2015, 8:22 am by Stephen Gillers
In Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman, set twenty years after To Kill A Mockingbird, Jean Louise Finch (formerly Scout), now in her late 20s, tells us that her father Atticus is a racist. [read post]
21 Jul 2015, 1:27 pm
”Does Scout's portrait of Atticus in Harper Lee's newly published novel vindicate Professor Freedman's view of him? [read post]
24 Aug 2015, 7:48 am
Here is the abstract.Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird illustrates a troubled relationship between lawyering and empathy and between empathy and masculinity. [read post]
15 Jul 2015, 2:29 pm by David Yellen
With the controversy surrounding Go Set a Watchman, I thought of my late colleague Monroe Freedman, who critiqued Atticus Finch long before the new Harper Lee book was published. [read post]
9 Jul 2018, 12:45 pm
When Lee’s literary executor published an early draft version of the novel entitled Go Set a Watchman in 2015, many readers were shocked to encounter an Atticus Finch who was an apologist for segregation and the leader of a White Citizens Council chapter. [read post]
9 Jul 2018, 12:45 pm by Christine Corcos
When Lee’s literary executor published an early draft version of the novel entitled Go Set a Watchman in 2015, many readers were shocked to encounter an Atticus Finch who was an apologist for segregation and the leader of a White Citizens Council chapter. [read post]
19 Feb 2016, 3:42 pm by Emily Clark
Harper Lee died today at the age of 89. [read post]
2 Apr 2016, 3:09 am by SHG
We’re up to our neck in victims these days, but one for whom few tears are shed is Harper Lee’s protagonist in To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus Finch. [read post]
11 Jul 2015, 6:23 am
Michiko Kakutani reveals in her NYT review of "Go Set a Watchman," discussed in an earlier post, where I wonder about the discussion Harper Lee had with her publishers that led to the rewrite of the story, making Atticus Finch an idealize father and lawyer.Let me guess, Lee and/or her publishers said Americans are still in their childhood as a people. [read post]
22 Jan 2010, 1:24 pm
" Here is the abstract.Atticus Finch – the fictional hero of Harper Lee’s 'To Kill A Mockingbird' – is a legal icon. [read post]
11 Jul 2010, 8:56 am by SHG
Thank you, Harper Lee, for creating the character that has guided so many. [read post]
28 Jul 2015, 1:42 pm
From the National Law Journal, discussion of the character of Atticus Finch in Go Set a Watchman by some law faculty.The article begins: Atticus Finch — unimpeachable lawyer and civil rights champion, or unapologetic racist? [read post]
3 Dec 2014, 12:08 pm
— Instapundit.com (@instapundit) December 2, 2014But read this 1999 law review article by Steven Lubet:'Reconstructing Atticus Finch' is a reexamination of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. [read post]
31 May 2010, 11:43 am by StephanieWestAllen
In one sense Atticus Finch and Tom Robinson live only in the pages of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird, and in the classic motion picture by the same title, starring the late, great Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch. [read post]
13 Nov 2015, 11:42 am by David R. Papke
Harper Lee’s reflections on Atticus Finch and the law are neither secondary nor inconsequential. [read post]
23 Mar 2018, 12:00 pm by Gerry W. Beyer
Harper Lee’s estate has filed suit over an upcoming Broadway adaptation of Lee’s work, To Kill a Mockingbird. [read post]