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Access Restricted: “The Law of Violence in No Country for Old Men”
- Location
- The Jacob Burns Moot Court, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 55 Fifth Avenue
- Dates & Times
- Wednesday, March 10, 2010 6:29PM–8:29PM
Featured speaker: Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento
Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento is the Associate Director for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA) in New York City, and is an Adjunct Instructor of Clinical Law at Brooklyn Law School. Playing off a typical form of law school pedagogy, Sarimento will lead a class-room debate on the ethical implications inherent in Ethan & Joel Coen’s filmic adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country For Old Men from within a mock court room theater.
About Access Restricted: Law & Representation
Even though Manhattan possesses one of the richest legal infrastructures in the country, the general public hardly ever interacts with these buildings and their use except for a few, very specified situations. In order to showcase this legal fabric, Access Restricted: Law & Representation hosts a series of talks by practicing lawyers, and scholars in the palaces and parlors where law is practiced or discussed.
Serving more as a constellation than a knot, the uniting rubric of the series teases the many meanings of the word “representation” by exploring current issues in law, while also investigating the law in art, architecture, and the media. Holistically, this multifaceted approach aims to foster its own “image” of the legal system and its concerns today.
Access Restricted is a free nomadic lecture series that opens rarely visited and often prohibited spaces in Manhattan to the general public. Once inside these unique interiors, the audience is treated to a site-specific lecture and discussion addressing a range of topics revolving around issues of architectural history and preservation, social justice, and urban development. The aim of the series is to foster new perspectives by encouraging the public to explore locales and situations through the various lenses of architecture and planning, art, history, sociology, political science, and law.
