今天是大年初三，新型冠状病毒感染的肺炎疫情防控进入关键期。抗击疫情需要大家一起努力，我们每个人都能做的是尽量待在家里，宅一点儿更好~

不过宅在家里的生活也是“痛（wu）苦（liao）”的，与其“葛优瘫”地在家里刷剧，不如看几部律政电影，毕竟学习法律不是纯学术的。如果你选对了地方，你可以从电影或电视中学到很多东西。

 下面是法学院教授为初学法律的学生和有抱负的律师推荐的十大电影，经典案例、传奇律师、事实与虚构…哪些电影会出现在你的清单上?（建议先看简介，再看电影，顺便练习一下英语）  

1. Twelve Angry Men (1957)

This US film is set inthe jury room, where 12 jurors have to decide the outcome of a seemingly openand shut case. In the U.K., no one knows precisely what goes on in the juryroom. Direct participant research is prohibited by law. So dramas like thisoffer a version of what might happen. One question to ponder: how do you thinkthe verdict might have differed if the jury had been told it could reach amajority verdict rather than a unanimous one?

2. The Paper Chase (1973)

This U.S. film shows how the much vaunted Socratic method of legal education –where students are fiercely quizzed by their professors – works in practice.The intellectual limitation of the film is the suggestion that all legal education is about textual analysis of cases and statutes. It takes no accountof the social importance of law. For a different take on the law school experience, you could try Legally Blonde (2001).

3. In the Name of theFather (1993)

This is an Irish-British-American film based on the story of the Guildford Four, four people falsely convicted of the1974 IRA's Guildford pub bombings, which killed four off-duty Britishsoldiers and a civilian. The story is important as it formed part of thebackground to major changes in the criminal justice system of England andWales, including the creation of the Criminal Cases Review Commission and the CrownProsecution Service. Warning: its portrayal of the trial process is a travestyof reality – it should not be taken as any sort of representation of what happens in practice.

4. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Based on Harper Lee’s classic novel, this tells the story of attorney Atticus Finch’s defense of ablack man falsely accused of rape. The recent publication of Harper Lee’sfollow up novel Go Set a Watchman brings a new dimension to the tale. How does the new book change your perception of Finch?

5. Erin Brockovich (2000)

A great ‘cause lawyering’ film. A clerk in a small law office pursues an action against a huge corporation, suspected of widespread land pollution. It’s a pity no similar U.K. film was made about the Sunday Times classic investigation into the thalidomide drug.

6. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

Post World War 2 trial of 4 Nazi judges, accused of using their position to support German state goals of cleansing the country of Jews. Worth seeing both for its own sake, but alsoas the back drop for the more recent creation of International Criminal Tribunals charged with the hearing of cases against those accused of warcrimes.

7. Reversal of Fortune (1990)

Based on a true story it centers on the appeal by Law Professor Alan Dershowitz in the case of Clausvon Bulow, a wealthy Dane found guilty of the attempted murder of his wife. An interesting film: not least because it shows the engagement of legal academicsin real litigation – something which does not often occur in the UK.

8. 10 Rillington Place (1971)

A film about the trial for murder of Timothy Evans: one of a number of high profile miscarriage of justice cases that ultimately led to the abolition of the death penalty in the U.K. in 1965. Worth watching as a reminder of why the death penalty needs to remain abolished.

9. A Separation (2011)

Iranian film focusingon an Iranian middle-class couple who separate, and the conflicts that arise when the husband hires a lower-class care giver for his elderly father, whosuffers from Alzheimer’s disease. I’ve included it here because it features some proceedings before courts in Iran, although it is hard to know how accurate the representation of the working of the Iranian court system truly is.

10. 10th District Court (2004) 

Documentary on the workof a Paris Criminal Court. Worth viewing to compare how the French criminaljustice system operates to the work of Magistrates’ Courts in England and Wales.

(文章来源：法平教育)