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Movie-Makers’ Lessons in Law: Reversal of fortune (1990) – Prof. Penny Cooper
Apart from going to law school, the best way to learn about law is to see it in action. Legal learning is free from the public galleries of our courts. You can walk in and watch judgecraft and...
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Law lessons from movie makers: The Paradine Case (1947) – Prof. Penny Cooper
In her elegant townhouse, the bewitching Mrs Paradine (Alida Valli) plays the piano beneath a painting of a handsome Colonel. He was her blind husband and she is about to be charged with his murder....
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Law lessons from movie makers: Inherit the wind (1960) – Prof. Penny Cooper
It would be easy to dismiss some aspects of this movie as merely irritating – renditions of ‘Give Me That Old Time Religion’ on loop or the Vaudeville feel of some of the scenes – but they aptly evoke...
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Law lessons from movie makers: My cousin Vinny (1992) – Prof. Penny Cooper
Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei were perfectly cast. They are attorney Vinny Gambini who just keeps on trying and his sharp-as-a-tack fiancée Mona Lisa Vito. Vinny rushes to the aid of his cousin (‘I shot...
View ArticleLaw lessons from the movie makers: Anatomy of a murder (1959) – Prof. Penny...
If I had to describe this movie in a word it would be ‘class’. It has a blissful Duke Ellington soundtrack, sleek cars and James Stewart playing Paul Biegler, the semi-retired former District Attorney...
View ArticleLaw lessons from movie makers: The verdict (1982) – Prof. Penny Cooper
A washed up, fifty something Boston attorney Frank Galvin (Paul Newman) is a divorced , bitter alcoholic who has no faith in himself let alone in justice. He spends his days pretending he has a...
View ArticleLaw lessons from the movie makers: Witness for the prosecution (1957) – Prof....
The buildings of Inner Temple haven’t changed on the outside since this movie was made but these days you’d be hard-pressed to find any cigar-smoking, monacle-wearing leading counsel like Sir Wilfred....
View ArticleLaw lessons from the movie makers: Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) – Prof. Penny...
In the opening scenes we see Judge Haywood (Spencer Tracey) arriving in a bombed-out Nuremberg. It’s two years after the end of World War II and America is losing interest in the war trials. Even so...
View ArticleLaw lessons from movie makers: The lady from Shanghai (1948) – Prof. Penny...
After nine reviews I can choose only one more and it’s not easy to leave out a movie like To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). Arguably Mockingbird is a better movie – it is certainly better known – but...
View ArticleLaw lessons from movie makers: The Shawshank Redemption
Alley Eugenicos discusses themes from Shawshank and applies them to real-life conceptions of the justice and penal system. ‘It chills my blood just to look at you.’ From our first encounter with a...
View ArticleThe Academic Corner: meet Dr David Seymour
Teodora Cordarov speaks to Dr David Seymour, LLB Programme Director, about what makes him tick, both in academia and in the rest of life! What got you interested in Law initially? I remember being very...
View ArticleAcademic Corner: Dr Mara Malagodi
Dr. Mara Malagodi is a comparative constitutional lawyer with expertise in South Asian legal history and culture. She joined The City Law School in September 2015. Mara, who is also a City Alumna,...
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