Great Trials and the Law in the Historical Imagination: A Law and Humanities Approach

ISBN-13: 9781032299952 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 224 str.

Russell L. Dees

Opis

This book introduces readers to issues in legal, historical, and cultural interpretation by examining six well-known historical trials through works of art that portray them.

Spis treści

Part I: Ancients, 1. The Trial of Socrates: Democracy and Truth in the Apology, 2. Cicero and the Trial of Gaius Verres: ‘Civic Corruption’, the Rule of Law, and the Analogy of Republican Rome, 3. The Trial of Jesus: Law, Narrative, and Nomos in the Gospel according to Mark, Part II: Moderns, 4. The Trial of Thomas More: Authentic Selfhood and Procedural Law in A Man for All Seasons, 5. The Salem Witch Trials: The Tragedy of Law in The Crucible, 6. The Great Monkey Trial: Historical ‘Memory’ and the ‘Politics of Eternity’, Epilogue, The Vicissitudes of a Fictional Character: Time, Atticus Finch, and Constitutional Evil

O autorze

Russell L. Dees is Lecturer in Law at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.