**Due to COVID-19, the professor may not be able to enter Taiwan at this moment. Students must meet minimum credit requirements even if this course is canceled.
**本課程可能因新冠病毒導致教授無法來台授課而取消，請選課同學注意以免修課學分不足。

This course will examine comparatively the representation of judicial process and the image of the legal profession in films in various countries. We will explore how this dramatic fiction influences a popular conception of justice that corresponds to a distinct model of civil society and is not simply limited to the resolution of disputes. Discussions will be based on partial screening and analysis of films produced within the last 30 years. In addition to discussing forms of representation of the adjudication process we will examine the role of lawyers and judges, their social status, the political function of courts as public forum, and the depiction of the relationship between legal rules, judicial process, and moral values.