1 Why law students read literature

1. Comprehension and interpretation are legal skills. The tools you use on a story — context, purpose, ambiguity, reliability of the narrator — are exactly the tools of statutory interpretation and evidence assessment (Legal Method, Units 1–2).2. Law's subject is human conflict. Literature presents it with a completeness no case report matches — motive, class, gender, fear.3. Narrative empathy makes better advocates and judges: the ability to see the world from the client's, victim's and accused's chair.4. Language power. Great stylists teach persuasion, irony, precision — the rhetorician's toolkit.Method for each text (use in exams):Author & context → synopsis → themes → legal issues(with Nepali and international law connections) → discussion questions.