The Great Trials of World History and the Lessons They Teach us

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Call Number: BOCD 345.07 Li Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Course no. 3767.
[24] lectures, 30 minutes per lecture.
The trial of Socrates -- The trial of Gaius Verres -- Three medieval trials -- The trial of Sir Thomas More -- The trial of Giordano Bruno -- The Salem Witchcraft trials -- The Boston Massacre trials -- The Aaron Burr conspiracy trial -- The Amistad trials -- The Dakota Conflict trials -- The Lincoln assassination conspiracy trial -- The trial of Louis Riel -- The three trials of Oscar Wilde -- The trial of Sheriff Joseph Shipp -- The Leopold and Loeb trial -- The Scopes Monkey trial -- The trials of the "Scottsboro Boys" -- The Nuremberg trials -- The Alger Hiss trial -- The Rivonia (Nelson Mandela) trial -- The Mississippi burning trial -- The trial of the Chicago eight -- The McMartin Preschool abuse trial -- The O.J. Simpson trial.
Lecturer: Professor Douglas O. Linder, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.
Examines trials throughout history that don't simply end with their verdict. Many have shaped and transformed the very social, political, and legal traditions we take for granted today. It's trials like these that are deserving of the description "great."

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