Weldon Literary Moot: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein vs. The Monster

On March 11, at 7pm in the Weldon Law Building at Dalhousie, Dalhousie’s Weldon Literary Moot Society will present the 15th Annual Literary Moot. This year, the comic mock trial is based on Mary Shelley’s genre-defining (and recently screen-adapted) Frankenstein. This year, Frankenstein’s Monster is on trial for murder. Is this terrible, misunderstood creature guilty of murder? Or is he actually the victim of another crime?

Funds raised at this event will support the Halifax Humanities Society, a local nonprofit that since 2005 has offered free, accessible, transformative courses in literature, philosophy, and art to
adults who face barriers to traditional university education. Students of all ages and backgrounds come together in a supportive intellectual community and gain the benefits of increased self-confidence, cultural literacy, and social connection.

In 2011, law students at Dalhousie’s Schulich School of Law created the Literary Moot as a way to support Halifax Humanities. For 15 years, law students have written and produced a whole range of literary legal dramas, raising over $45,000 for Halifax Humanities. Often drawing an audience numbering in the hundreds, the Weldon Literary Moot has been featured by the CBC and in Canadian legal publications.