Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2009
Abstract
What are the narrative possibilities for understanding nonprofit law? Given the porous barriers between nonprofit law and the literature about it, there are many. Here I consider two. First, nonprofit law and nonprofit literature are each enriched and made fully explicable by reference to the other. Nonprofit law has grown in parallel with literature. It may even be that important legal texts, texts about doing and being good, were imported directly from literary sources into law. Second, in writings ranging from sensational journalism to high literature, nonprofit laws and the scandals involving their violations have captured the public imagination for centuries. That nonprofit law deals with human concerns such as faithfulness and the struggle to do good also makes nonprofit literature effective in creating the rich background against which the law can be better understood.
Recommended Citation
Horwitz, Jill R. "Nonprofits and Narrative: Piers Plowman, Anthony Trollope, and Charities Law." Mich. St. L. Rev. 2009, no. 4 (2009): 989-1016.
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