Abstract:

The best way of examining a society and its system is to examine the legal system of that given society. Within in this concept legal education is an actual problem as legal system in Turkey. It is aimed that discussing necessity of interdisciplinary approach to legal education with in the frame of “Law and Literature” courses in this article. For this reason first main characteristics of legal education in Turkey will be explained then it will be discussed whether “Law and Literature” could be considered as a law school course. As a matter of fact that this course has been a part of curricula at many law schools and it is recently considered as a certain course at law faculties in Turkey. Law and Literature course has two main idea; law in literature and literature in law. It can be claimed that this course is a part of law curricula since the aim of legal education to gain law student different perspectives on legal issues via interdisciplinary approaches

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