HIST 1600

HIST 1600

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Through discussion of a variety of high-profile and lesser-known trials throughout history, this course will examine a range of issues in the history of law and criminality. We will study the changing conceptions of justice and punishment, trials as a form of social marginalization, and the relationship between ideology—imperialism, liberalism, communism, fascism—and law. Cases to be covered include: Socrates, Jesus Christ, Joan of Arc, animal trials, Galileo, witch trials, Marie-Antoinette, the Dreyfus Affair, the Stalinist show trials, the war crimes trials at Nuremberg, Adolf Eichmann, and O.J. Simpson.

When Offered Spring.

Distribution Category (HA-AS)

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16169 HIST 1600   LEC 001

  • 16170 HIST 1600   DIS 201

  • 16171 HIST 1600   DIS 202

  • 16172 HIST 1600   DIS 203

  • 16173 HIST 1600   DIS 204

  • 16174 HIST 1600   DIS 205

  • 16175 HIST 1600   DIS 206

  • 16176 HIST 1600   DIS 207

  • 16177 HIST 1600   DIS 208

  • 16178 HIST 1600   DIS 209

  • 16179 HIST 1600   DIS 210