Harry Potter In The Chamber Of ‘Laws’: NUJS Kolkata To Offer Courses On The Fictional Character

National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) in Kolkata is offering a new course on Harry Potter which would encourage students to explore legal aspects of JK Rowling’s fictional work, reports The Hindu.

Titled, “An interface between Fantasy Fiction Literature and Law: Special focus on Rowling’s Potterverse”, the course will be offered as an elective to fourth and fifth-year students of the B.A LL.B (Hons) programme.

Intended to provide a breather for students from the orthodox law school curriculum, the course is more like an experiment, The Hindu quoted Assistant Professor Shouvik Kumar Guha who will handle the course for Winter session. The students get bored as their lives revolve around the hard letter of law, Guha justified.

The professor also said that inclusion of such a subject would enable students to apply their thought in a completely different scenario, given the present societal, legal and political changes, including the slew of landmark Supreme Court judgements.

Students with different political lineage would also not find it difficult to adapt as these scenarios do not involve real-world situations, he said.

The course assignments would be very creative, and Guha hopes some of these works would get published in the future.

Earlier in 2012, Rashmi Raman, a former student of NUJS had started a Potter-verse centric law course at the Jindal Global Law School.