I think the answer is yes.

James R. Elkins asks:

My question is this: Is there a way to make use of the imagined spaces in which we read-read as students of law, read novels for pleasure-and perceived chasm between pleasure and work? Is there a middle ground of reading, a strategy for reading, that would allow a student of law to think about reading law cases as literature and reading novels as if they might be of central importance in the way one becomes a lawyer? Is there a way to read law for pleasure and novels as instructive vocational texts? If so, we may find in “lawyers and literature,” that we’ll need to redefine pleasure and purpose; we redefine what it means to be a reader of law and of literature.