This year's Wolfe Institute theme is Humanizing the Law.
The theme of “Humanizing the Law” allows us to explore how laws, recent judicial decisions, and the constant turmoil of our political landscape directly affect members of the Brooklyn College community. With that goal in mind, we ask: What role can the humanities play in humanizing the law? How can the humanities help us understand the ethical consequences of the law? How can they help us understand how the law influences the everyday lives of those who are the targets of the law, whether immigrants, women, the poor, racial and sexual minorities, and so on? What role should the work of humanities-based scholars play in informing legislative and judicial processes? The residency by Hess Scholar Melissa Murray, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, will help us explore issues raised by the annual theme.
This resource guide was created by the Brooklyn College Library in support of the Wolfe Institute's 2024-2025 programs, including the Hess Scholar-in-Residence program, the Faculty Fellow program, and the Faculty & Staff Reading Group. The guide links to resources (books, articles, streaming video) that are available online to the Brooklyn College community via the Library's collections and/or are freely available online. It is a curated list of resources, and is not meant to be an exhaustive list of all works by Prof. Melissa Murray or any of the authors and event panelists participating in this year's Wolfe Institute programs. If, however, there are additional resources in our collections (or freely available online) that you would like to have included here, please reach out.
