HIST 1600

HIST 1600

Course information provided by the 2016-2017 Catalog.

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.  ​​


Distribution Category (HA-AS)

When Offered Spring.

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8592 HIST 1600   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8593 HIST 1600   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8594 HIST 1600   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8595 HIST 1600   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8596 HIST 1600   DIS 204

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8597 HIST 1600   DIS 205

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8598 HIST 1600   DIS 206

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8599 HIST 1600   DIS 207

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8600 HIST 1600   DIS 208

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8601 HIST 1600   DIS 209

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8602 HIST 1600   DIS 210

  • Instruction Mode: In Person