Intertextual Research Group between Law and Literature

College of Law
About us

The Intertext between Law and Literature group is an academic platform that seeks to analyze from an interdisciplinary perspective the various links between the ancient disciplines of Law and Literature.

The research group, Intertexts between Law and Literature, aims to be a specialized and diverse group of researchers as well as a platform for debate, theorization, and production of knowledge in a contemporary academy marked by transnational and interdisciplinary dialogue. The purpose of the group is to carry out a broad and diverse study of those links between the disciplines of Law and Literature, without neglecting certain connections with Cultural Studies and other arts, so that humanistic, social and artistic studies are productively and reciprocally with the ethics and practice of human rights.

Precisely, representation, as a central phenomenon of art, law, and politics, allows us to think about texts that, while maintaining certain specificities, also share a series of codes and languages. The concept of intertext, in which texts inevitably absorb other texts for their existence, allows us to propose a methodology in which it is possible to collate diverse archives of disciplines as old, and apparently as far apart, as Law and Literature, as well as other possible cultural documents that enable rich and cross-sectional theoretical analyzes. Thanks to this comparative method and transdisciplinary research, the group tries to carry out innovative and useful studies that contribute to the current academic study.

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Research Interests

Law and Literature; Human rights; Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies; Philosophy of Law; Bioethics.

Ongoing investigations

Juan Gelman and the implications in Latin American Law

Managers: Diego Falconí and Daniela Salazar
Funding: USFQ College of Jurisprudence
Date: January 2016 to January 2017
Description: This investigation tries to see how from the Gelman vs. IACHR judgment Uruguay a series of interesting proposals and postulates, can help to rethink the relationship between Law and Literature. From the philosophy of law and taking Gelman's poems, editorials, and letters as a corpus, it is interesting to reflect on issues such as the measurement of affectations, the value of testimony, and the reconfiguration of language.

Publications

Collective Volumes

Halfway between intertexts between literature and law,
Diego Falconí Trávez, (ed.), 2016.

http://www.tirant.com/editorial/libro/a-medio-camino-intertextos-entre-la-literatura-y-el-derecho-diego-falconi-travez-9788416349593?busqueda=diego+falconi&

Dossier of the Iuris Dictio magazine "Law and literature in Latin America",
Diego Falconí Trávez, (ed.), 2017.

Teaching

Course: Literature and law
Center where it is taught: USFQ
Faculty: Jurisprudence
Instructor: Diego Falconí Trávez
Year since delivery: 2012
Description: This course tries, from the methodology of Literature Theory and Comparative Literature, to make an approach to the legal phenomenon (that known as a law in literature), using intertextuality to link certain fundamental themes for both disciplines. Additionally, and taking as a basis the criticism that the Law and Literature movement has made possible in the current legal study, an attempt will be made to think through different literary texts of the legal reality not only from the normative language but from its complex and rich historical, ethical dimension, critical and social.

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