Historical Trials

15 credits

Reading list, Master's level, 2JS533

Literature Autumn 2026

INTRODUCTION

  • Meierhenrich, Jens; Pendas, Devin O., The Justice of My Cause is Clear, but Theres Politics to Fear, Part of: Political trials in theory and history, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016, p. 1 online resource (x, 439 pages)Compulsory

ARTICLES Seminar 1

  • Shekhovstov, Anton, The Moscow-Strasbourg-Brussels Axis, Part of: Russia and the western far right, Fascim and the far right., Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, [2018], p. xxxii, 262 s.Compulsory
  • Decker, Stephanie, The Role of Public Confessions in Show Trials: An Analysis of the Moscow Show Trials, Part of: The journal of historical sociology., 2019(32), 459-477Compulsory
  • Weiss, Michael, Man on a Mission: Bill Browder vs. the Kremlin, Part of: World affairs, 2012(174):5, 53-68Compulsory
  • Wilson, Thomas H.; Sheppard II, J. Robert, In Memory of Sergei Magnitsky: A Lawyers Role in Promoting and Protecting International Human Rights, Part of: Houston journal of international law, 2019(41):2, 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, 227-247Compulsory

ARTICLES Seminar 2

  • Arjomand, Minou, Trials in Nuremberg, Part of: Staged, New York, Columbia University Press, [2018], p. xv, 232 pagesCompulsory
  • Douglas, Lawrence, Trial as Documentary: Images of Eichmann, Part of: Lessons and Legacies VII: The Holocaust in International Perspective, Northwestern University Press, 2006Compulsory
  • Kékesi, Zoltán, In the Leading Role: Adolf Eichmann Eyal Sivan: The Specialist (1999), Part of: Agents of liberation, Budapest, Central European University Press, 2015, p. vi, 221 pagesCompulsory
  • 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, 2014Compulsory
  • 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, 2014Compulsory
  • Douglas, Lawrence, The Trial by History, Part of: The right wrong man, Princeton, Princeton University Press, [2016], p. 331 pagesCompulsory

ARTICLES Seminar 3

  • B.Kaplan, Morris, Literature in the Dock: The Trials of Oscar Wilde, Part of: Journal of law and society, 2004, 113-130Compulsory
  • Mercer, Sarah; Sandford-Couch, Clare, Legal Ethics in the Trial of Oscar Wilde, Part of: Legal ethics, 2013, 119-133Compulsory
  • McCleery, Alistair, Banned Books and Publishes´, Part of: Journal of modern literature, 2019, 34-52Compulsory
  • Taylor, Leslie A., "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, 10(2001):2, s. 250-286Compulsory
  • Spencer, J.R., Whitehouse v Lemon, Whitehouse v Gay News Ltd (1979), Part of: Landmark cases in criminal law, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2017, p. x, 365 s.Compulsory
  • 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., 2001(23), 153-165Compulsory

ARTICLES Seminar 4

  • B.Freedman, Estelle, Scottsboro and Its Legacies, Part of: Redefining rape, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2013, p. 387 pagesCompulsory
  • IP, John, The Travel Ban: Judical Deference and the Legacy of Korematsu, Part of: Howard Law Journal, 2020, 153-214Compulsory
  • 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, 2002Compulsory

ARTICLES Seminar 5

  • Chomsky, Carol, The United States-Dakota War Trials: A Study in Military Injustice, Part of: Stanford law review., 1990, 13-98Compulsory
  • Maxwell, Lida, A Public Taste for Truth. Zolas Literary Appeals to the People in the Dreyfus Affair, Part of: Public trials, New York, Oxford University Press, 2014, p. 1 online resourceCompulsory
  • Grosswald Curran, Vivian, The Military Trial at Rennes: Text and Subtext of the Dreyfus Affair, Part of: Touro international law review, 2012, 5-16Compulsory
  • Eckhardt, William George, My Lai: An American Tragedy, Part of: UMKC law review, 2000, 671-704Compulsory
  • Addicott, Jeffrey F., The Lesson of My Lai, Part of: Military Law and Law of War Review, 1992, 73-116Compulsory

ARTICLES Seminar 6

  • Kelsey, Sean, Politics and Procedure in the Trials of Charles I, Part of: Law and history review., 2004(22):4, 1-25Compulsory
  • Kelsey, Sean, King Charles His Case: The Intended Prosecution of Charles I, Part of: The journal of legal history, (39):1, 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, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012, p. Online (x, 316 s.)Compulsory
  • 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, 2020Compulsory
  • 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. xxiv, 544 pagesCompulsory
  • Shabas, William A., Chapters 1. The power of the beaten path, Part of: The trial of the Kaiser, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, p. x, 410 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of platesCompulsory
  • Shabas, William A., Chapter 18. Was he guilty?, Part of: The trial of the Kaiser, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, p. x, 410 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of platesCompulsory

ARTICLES Seminar 7

  • 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, 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, 392-411Compulsory
  • Gies, Lieva; Bortoluzzi, Maria, Introduction: Transmedia Crime Stories, Part of: Transmedia Crime Stories, London, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016, p. XXVII, 236 p. 2 illus. in color.Compulsory

Ann D. GORDON,

The Trial of Susan B. Anthony,

Federal Judicial Center, 2005,

84 p. [Susan B. Anthony.pdf]

ARTICLES Seminar 8

  • Segre, Michael, Light on the Galileo Case, Part of: Isis, 1997(88:3), 484-504Compulsory
  • M.Weiss, Kenneth, The Scopes Trial, Part of: Evolutionary anthropology, 2007, 126-131Compulsory
  • M.Szasz, Ferenc, The Scopes Trial in Perspective, Part of: Tennessee historical quarterly, 1971, 288-298Compulsory
  • Moore, Randy, Creationism in the United States, Part of: The American biology teacher, 1998, 568-577Compulsory
  • J.Larsson, Edward, Putting Buck v. Bell in Scientific and Historical Context: A Response to Victoria Nourse, Part of: Pepperdine Law Review, 2011, 119-128Compulsory

ARTICLES Seminar 9

  • Meierhenrich, Jens; M.Cole, Catherine, 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. x, 439 pagesCompulsory
  • Evans, Martha, Nelson Mandelas Show Trials": An Analysis of Press Coverage of Mandelas Court Appearances, Part of: Critical arts., 2020(34):1, 10-24Compulsory
  • Schmid, Axel P., Terrorists on trial. A Performative Perspective, Part of: Terrorists on Trial: A Performative Perspective, 2016Compulsory
  • 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, 2017(51):2, 227-251Compulsory
  • Roth, Walton T.; Dager, Stephen R., Psychiatry on Trial. The Norway 2011 Massacre, Part of: The journal of nervous and mental disease, 2014(202):3, 181-185Compulsory

ARTICLES Seminar 10

Daniel YAMAUCH ACOSTA & Ruth FARIA DA COSTA CASTANHA (translated by Felipe ZOBARAN), “Law, Justice and Myth: a Reading of The Trial, by F. Kafka", Anamorphosis - Revista Internacional de Direito e Literatura, 2017, 437-464.

Eugenio TORRE, Carla GRAMAGLIA, Amalia JONA & Patrizia ZEPPEGNO:

"12 Angry Men". The Group and the Individual: From Objectiveness to Subjectiveness, Rivista Internazionale di Filisofia e Psicologia, vol. 6, 2015,

p. 528-527

* Compulsory