Historical Trials
15 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 2JS533
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
ARTICLES Seminar 1
- Meierhenrich, Jens; Pendas, Devin O., The Justice of My Cause is Clear, but There's Politics to Fear, Part of: Political trials in theory and history, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016, p. 1–64Compulsory
ARTICLES Seminar 2
- Decker, Stephanie, The Role of Public Confessions in Show Trials: An Analysis of the Moscow Show Trials, Part of: The journal of historical sociology., vol. 32, 2019, p. 459–477Compulsory
- Sakwa, Richard, The Trials of Khodorkovsky in Russia, Part of: Political trials in theory and history, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016, p. 369–393Compulsory
- Weiss, Michael, Man on a Mission: Bill Browder vs. the Kremlin, Part of: World affairs, vol. 174, no. 5, 2012, p. 53–68Compulsory
- Wilson, Thomas H.; Sheppard II, J. Robert, In Memory of Sergei Magnitsky: A Lawyer's Role in Promoting and Protecting International Human Rights, Part of: Houston journal of international law, vol. 41, no. 2, 2019, p. 343–386Compulsory
ARTICLES Seminar 3
- Evans, Martha, Nelson Mandela's "Show Trials": An Analysis of Press Coverage of Mandela's Court Appearances, Part of: Critical arts., vol. 34, no. 1, 2020, p. 10–24Compulsory
- Augusteijn, Joost, "Is There any Justice Left in this Country?" The IRA on Trial in the 1970s, Part of: Terrorists on Trial: A Performative Perspective, Leiden, Leiden University Press, 2016, p. 173–230Compulsory
- Laugerud, Solveig; Langballe, Åse, Turning the Witness Stand into a Speaker's Platform: Victim Participation in the Norwegian Legal System as Exemplified by the Trial Against Anders Behring Breivik, Part of: Law & society review, vol. 51, no. 2, 2017, p. 227–251Compulsory
- Roth, Walton T.; Dager, Stephen R., Psychiatry on Trial. The Norway 2011 Massacre, Part of: The journal of nervous and mental disease, vol. 202, no. 3, 2014, p. 181–185Compulsory
ARTICLES Seminar 4
- Judging the Maid, Part of: The virgin warrior: the life and death of Joan of Arc, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2009, p. 130–152Compulsory
- From Fear of the Fire, Part of: The virgin warrior: the life and death of Joan of Arc, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2009, p. 153–171Compulsory
- Weiss, Kenneth M., The Scopes Trial, Part of: Evolutionary anthropology, vol. 16, 2007, p. 126–131Compulsory
- Szasz, Ferenc. M., The Scopes Trial in Perspective, Part of: Tennessee historical quarterly, 1971, p. 288–298Compulsory
- Moore, Randy, Creationism in the United States: II. The Aftermath of the Scopes Trial, Part of: American Biology Teacher, 1998, p. 568–577Compulsory
- Spencer, J.R., Whitehouse v Lemon, Whitehouse v Gay News Ltd (1979), Part of: Landmark cases in criminal law, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2017, p. 261–282Compulsory
- Moran, Leslie J., Dangerous words and dead letters: encounters with law and The Love That Dares To Speak Its Name, Part of: Liverpool law review., vol. 23, 2001, p. 153–165Compulsory
ARTICLES Seminar 5
- Prager, Brad, Hanna in Frankfurt?, Part of: Colloquia Germanica: internationale Zeitschrift für germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, vol. 48, no. 1-2, 2015, p. 43–57Compulsory
- Constantakis, Sara, Overview: Twelve Angry Men, Part of: Drama for Students. Vol. 23, 2006Compulsory
- Smorodinska, Tatiane, Rule of law vs. 'Russian justice': Nikita Mikhalkov's 12, Part of: Studies in Russian & Soviet cinema, 2010, p. 161–170Compulsory
- O'Neill, Patrick, Kafka's Trials, Part of: Transforming Kafka: translation effects, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, [2014], p. 98–115Compulsory
- Harwood, Catharine, LLB (Hons) Research Paper - Lawyers as writers: Franz Kafka's Literature and the Law, Part of: Victoria University of Wellington law review, 2007Compulsory
ARTICLES Seminar 6
- Kelsey, Sean, Politics and Procedure in the Trials of Charles I, Part of: Law and history review., 2004, p. 1–25Compulsory
- Kelsey, Sean, King Charles His Case: The Intended Prosecution of Charles I, Part of: The journal of legal history, vol. 39, no. 1, p. 58–87Compulsory
- Smith, Charles Anthony, Antecedents and Origins of War Crimes Tribunals - The Trial of Charles I and the Trial of Captain Henry Wirz, Part of: The rise and fall of war crimes trials: from Charles I to Bush II, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012, p. 29–77Compulsory
- Duong, Kevin, Regicide and Redemptive Violence in the French Revolution, Part of: The Virtues of Violence: Democracy Against Disintegration in Modern France, Oxford University Press, 2020, p. 20–52Compulsory
- Shapiro, Barry M., Chapter Seven. "The Case against the King," 1789-93, Part of: A companion to the French Revolution, Chichester, West Sussex, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, p. 107–120Compulsory
- Shabas, William A., Chapters 1. The power of the beaten path, Part of: The trial of the Kaiser, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, p. 1–9Compulsory
- Shabas, William A., Chapter 18. Was he guilty?, Part of: The trial of the Kaiser, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, p. 293–316Compulsory
ARTICLES Seminar 7
- Anthes, Louis, Publicly Deliberative Drama: The 1934 Mock Trial of Adolf Hitler for "Crimes against civilization", Part of: The American journal of legal history., vol. 42, no. 4, 1998, p. 391–410Compulsory
- Sweet, William, The Volksgerichtshof: 1934-45, Part of: The journal of modern history, vol. 46, no. 2, 1974, p. 314–329Compulsory
- Hirsch, Francine, The Soviet Union, the Nuremberg Trials, and the Politics of the Postwar Moment, Part of: Political trials in theory and history, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016, p. 157–183Compulsory
- Arjomand, Minou, Trials in Nuremberg, Part of: Staged: show trials, political theater, and the aesthetics of judgment, New York, Columbia University Press, [2018], p. 139–170Compulsory
- Totani, Yuma, The First Trial Analysts, Part of: The Tokyo war crimes trial: the pursuit of justice in the wake of World War II, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Asia Center, 2008, p. 190–217Compulsory
ARTICLES Seminar 8
- Pendas, Devin O., The Eichmann Trial in Law and Theory, Part of: Political trials in theory and history, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016, p. 205–228Compulsory
- Douglas, Lawrence, Trial as Documentary: Images of Eichmann, Part of: Lessons and Legacies VII: The Holocaust in International Perspective, Northwestern University Press, 2006, p. 369–384Compulsory
- Kékesi, Zoltán, In the Leading Role: Adolf Eichmann Eyal Sivan: The Specialist (1999), Part of: Agents of liberation: Holocaust memory in contemporary art and documentary film, Budapest, Central European University Press, 2015, p. 109–130Compulsory
- Bazyler, Michael J.; Tuerkheimer, Frank M., The Trial of Anthony Sawoniuk at the Old Bailey: The Holocaust in the British Courtroom, Part of: Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust, New York University Press, 2014, p. 274–301Compulsory
- Bazyler, Michael J.; Tuerkheimer, Frank M., The Trial of Feodor Fedorenko: Treblinka Relived in a Florida Courtroom, Part of: Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust, New York University Press, 2014, p. 246–273Compulsory
- Douglas, Lawrence, The Trial by History, Part of: The right wrong man: John Demjanjuk and the last great Nazi war crimes trial, Princeton, Princeton University Press, [2016], p. 216–246Compulsory
- Addicott, Jeffrey F., The Lesson of My Lai, Part of: Military Law and Law of War Review, 1992, p. 73–116Compulsory
ARTICLES Seminar 9
- Grosswald Curran, Vivian, The Military Trial at Rennes: Text and Subtext of the Dreyfus Affair, Part of: Touro international law review, 2012, p. 5–16Compulsory
- Maxwell, Lida, A Public Taste for Truth. Zola's Literary Appeals to the People in the Dreyfus Affair, Part of: Public trials: Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the politics of lost causes, New York, Oxford University Press, 2014, p. 42Compulsory
- Freedman, Estelle B., Scottsboro and Its Legacies, Part of: Redefining rape: sexual violence in the era of suffrage and segregation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2013, p. 253–270Compulsory
- Hixson, Walter L., Black and White. The O.J. Simpson Case, Part of: Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History, Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 214–232Compulsory
ARTICLES Seminar 10
- Cook, Alexander C., China's Gang of Four Trial. The Law v. The Laws of History, Part of: Political trials in theory and history, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016, p. 263–294Compulsory
- Chesterman, Michael, OJ and the Dingo: How Media Publicity Relating to Criminal Cases Tried by Jury is Dealt with in Australia and America, Part of: The American journal of comparative law, 1997, p. 109–147Compulsory
- Middleweek, Belinda, Dingo media? The persistence of the "trial by media" frame in popular, media, and academic evaluations of the Azaria Chamberlain case, Part of: Feminist media studies, 2017, p. 392–411Compulsory
- Gies, Lieve; Bortoluzzi, Maria, Introduction: Transmedia Crime Stories, Part of: Transmedia Crime Stories: The Trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in the Globalised Media Sphere, London, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016, p. 1–13Compulsory
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