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
- 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
- V.Haskins, Ekatarina, Places of Protest in Putin´s Russia: Pussy Riot´s Punk Prayer and Show Trial, Part of: Advances in the history of rhetoric, 2015, p. 227–247Compulsory
ARTICLES Seminar 3
- 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 4
- 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
- O.Pendas, Devin, The Eichmann Trial in Law and Theory, Part of: Political trials in theory and history, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, p. 205–228Compulsory
- Douglas, Lawrence, Trials 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, Part of: Agents of Liberations: Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Art and Documentary Film, uuuu-uuuu, p. 109–130Compulsory
- J.Bazylen, Michael; M.Tuerkheimer, Frank, 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
- J.Bazylen, Michael; M.Tuerkheimer, Frank, The Trial of Feodor Feodorenko: 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
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
- 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
- Meierhenrich, Jens, In the Theater of the Rule of Law. Performing the Rivona Trial in Soth Africa, 1963-1964., Part of: Political trials in theory and history, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, p. 229–262Compulsory
ARTICLES Seminar 7
- 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
- A.Taylor, Leslie, I Made up My Mind to Get It: The American Trial of "The Well of Loneliness" New York City, 1928-1929, Part of: Journal of the history of sexuality, 2001, p. 250–286Compulsory
- McCleery, Alistair, Banned Books and Publishes´, Part of: Journal of modern literature, 2019, p. 34–52Compulsory
- Mercer, Sarah; Sandford-Couch, Clare, Legal Ethics in the Trial of Oscar Wilde, Part of: Legal ethics, 2013, p. 119–133Compulsory
- B.Kaplan, Morris, Literature in the Dock: The Trials of Oscar Wilde, Part of: Journal of law and society, 2004, p. 113–130Compulsory
ARTICLES Seminar 8
- B.Freedman, Estelle, 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
- IP, John, The Travel Ban: Judical Deference and the Legacy of Korematsu, Part of: Howard Law Journal, 2020, p. 153–214Compulsory
- L.Hixson, Walter, 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 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
- Chomsky, Carol, The United States-Dakota War Trials: A Study in Military Injustice, Part of: Stanford law review., 1990, p. 13–98Compulsory
- Eckhardt, William George, My Lai: An American Tragedy, Part of: UMKC law review, 2000, p. 671–704Compulsory
- F.Addicott, Jeffrey, The Lesson of My Lai, Part of: Military Law and Law of War Review, 1992, p. 73–116Compulsory
ARTICLES Seminar 10
- M.Weiss, Kenneth, The Scopes Trial, Part of: Evolutionary anthropology, 2007, p. 126–131Compulsory
- M.Szasz, Ferenc, The Scopes Trial in Perspective, Part of: Tennessee historical quarterly, 1971, p. 288–298Compulsory
- Moore, Randy, Creationism in the United States, Part of: The American biology teacher, 1998, p. 568–577Compulsory
- Segre, Michael, Light on the Galileo Case, Part of: Isis: an international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences: official journal of the History of Science Society, vol. 88:3, 1997, p. 484–504Compulsory
- J.Larsson, Edward, Putting Buck v. Bell in Scientific and Historical Context: A Response to Victoria Nourse, Part of: Pepperdine Law Review, 2011, p. 119–128Compulsory
- Taylor, Larissa, The virgin warrior: the life and death of Joan of Arc, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2009Compulsory
- Chesterman, Michael, OJ and the Dingo: How Media Publicity Relating to Criminal Cases Tried by Jury is Dealt with in Ausralia 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 Chamerlain case, Part of: Feminist media studies, 2017, p. 392–411Compulsory
- Gies, Lieva; 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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