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, Gilles de Rais, the French Revolutionary Terror, the Russian revolutionary terrorists, the Dreyfus Affair, the Stalinist show trials, the war crimes trials at Nuremberg, Adolf Eichmann, Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, the Hague Tribunal, and Saddam Hussein.  ​​

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

  •  8592 HIST 1600   LEC 001

  •  8593 HIST 1600   DIS 201

  •  8594 HIST 1600   DIS 202

  •  8595 HIST 1600   DIS 203

  •  8596 HIST 1600   DIS 204

  •  8597 HIST 1600   DIS 205

  •  8598 HIST 1600   DIS 206

  •  8599 HIST 1600   DIS 207

  •  8600 HIST 1600   DIS 208

  •  8601 HIST 1600   DIS 209

  •  8602 HIST 1600   DIS 210