Great Trials And The Law In The Historical Imagination

Author : Russell L. Dees
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000626100

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Great Trials and the Law in the Historical Imagination by Russell L. Dees Pdf

Great Trials and the Law in the Historical Imagination: A Law and Humanities Approach introduces readers to the history of law and issues in historical, legal, and artistic interpretation by examining six well-known historical trials through works of art that portray them. Great Trials provides readers with an accessible, non-dogmatic introduction to the interdisciplinary ‘law and humanities’ approach to law, legal history, and legal interpretation. By examining how six famous/notorious trials in Western history have been portrayed in six major works of art, the book shows how issues of legal, historical, and artistic interpretation can become intertwined: the different ways we embed law in narrative, how we bring conscious and subconscious conceptions of history to our interpretation of law, and how aesthetic predilections and moral commitments to the law may influence our views of history. The book studies well-known depictions of the trials of Socrates, Cicero, Jesus, Thomas More, the Salem ‘witches’, and John Scopes and provides innovative analyses of those works. The epilogue examines how historical methodology and historical imagination are crucial to both our understanding of the law and our aesthetic choices through various readings of Harper Lee’s beloved character, Atticus Finch. The first book to employ a ‘law and humanities’ approach to delve into the institution of the trial, and what it means in different legal systems at different historical times, this book will appeal to academics, students and others with interests in legal history, law and popular culture and law and the humanities.

Author : Virginia Lalli
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781504986779

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The Verdict of History by Virginia Lalli Pdf

An injustice to one is a threat made to all (Montesquieu). This book seeks to document and analyse the great legal trials of history, from ancient times to our days. The protagonists include Socrates, Catiline, Sacco and Vanzetti, and Oscar Wilde. The careful reader will naturally wonder, how fair were these trials? This book narrates the trials and provides an original historical account of the evolution of human civilization from a range of perspectives. Indeed, the author posits that from the various charges, exchanges between prosecution and defence and intentions expressed in the cases. The great existential values of humanity are revealed. Our protagonists embodied ideals that remain current to this day. Each one of them has left us a specific message to reflect upon.

Author : Earl Of Birkenhead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 125886035X

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Famous Trials of History by Earl Of Birkenhead Pdf

This is a new release of the original 1926 edition.

Author : Frank McLynn
Publisher : Crux Publishing Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781909979444

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Famous Trials by Frank McLynn Pdf

A wonderful summary of famous trials throughout history, from Jesus Christ to Oscar Wilde

Author : Richard Mullender,Matteo Nicolini,Thomas D.C. Bennett,Emilia Mickiewicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000066838

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Law and Imagination in Troubled Times by Richard Mullender,Matteo Nicolini,Thomas D.C. Bennett,Emilia Mickiewicz Pdf

This collection focuses on how troubled times impact upon the law, the body politic, and the complex interrelationship among them. It centres on how they engage in a dialogue with the imagination and literature, thus triggering an emergent (but thus far underdeveloped) field concerning the ‘legal imagination.’ Legal change necessitates a close examination of the historical, cultural, social, and economic variables that promote and affect such change. This requires us to attend to the variety of non-legal variables that percolate throughout the legal system. The collection probes ‘the transatlantic constitution’ and focuses attention on imagination in a common law context that seems to foster imagination as a cultural capability. The book is divided into four parts. The first part begins with a set of insights into the historical development of legal education in England and concludes with a reflection on the historical transition of England from an absolute monarchy to a republic. The second part of the volume examines the role that imagination plays in the functioning of the courts. The third part focuses on patterns of thought in legal scholarship and detects how legal imagination contributes to the process of producing new legal categories and terminology. The fourth part focuses on patterns of thought in legal scholarship, and looks to the impact of the imagination on legal thinking in the future. The work provides stimulating reading for those working in the areas of legal philosophy, legal history and law and humanities and law and language.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:604601995

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Pictorial History of the World's Great Trials by Anonim Pdf

Author : David J. Staley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000336146

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Historical Imagination by David J. Staley Pdf

Historical Imagination examines the threshold between what historians consider to be proper, imagination-free history and the malpractice of excessive imagination, asking where the boundary between the two sits and the limits of permitted imagination for the historian. We use "imagination" to refer to a mental skill that encompasses two different tasks: the reconstruction of previously experienced parts of the world and the creation of new objects and experiences with no direct connection to the actual world. In history, imagination means using the mind's eye to picture both the actual and inactual at the same time. All historical works employ at least some creative imagination, but an excess is considered "too much". Under what circumstances are historians permitted to cross this boundary into creative imagination and how far can they go? Supporting theory with relatable examples, Staley shows how historical works are a complex combination of mimetic and creative imagination and offers a heuristic for assessing this ratio in any work of history. Setting out complex theoretical concepts in an accessible and understandable manner and encouraging the reader to consider both the nature and limits of historical imagination, this is an ideal volume for students and scholars of the philosophy of history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Law
ISBN : OSU:32437010762835

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The Law Times by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Comaroff,Jean Comaroff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429719318

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Ethnography And The Historical Imagination by John Comaroff,Jean Comaroff Pdf

Over the years John and Jean Comaroff have broadened the study of culture and society with their reflections on power and meaning. In their work on Africa and colonialism they have explored some of the fundamental questions of social science, delving into the nature of history and human agency, culture and consciousness, ritual and representation. How are human differences constructed and institutionalized, transformed and (sometimes) effaced, empowered and (sometimes) resisted? How do local cultures articulate with global forms? How is the power of some people over others built, sustained, eroded, and negated? How does the social imagination take shape in novel yet collectively meaningful ways? Addressing these questions, the essays in this volume–several never before published–work toward an "imaginative sociology," demonstrating the techniques by which social science may capture the contexts that human beings construct and inhabit. In the introduction, the authors offer their most complete statement to date on the nature of historical anthropology. Standing apart from the traditional disciplines of social history and modernist social science, their work is dedicated to discovering how human worlds are made and signified, forgotten and remade.

Author : Martti Koskenniemi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1127 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521768597

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To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth by Martti Koskenniemi Pdf

A critical history of European sovereignty and property rights as the foundation of the international order in 1300-1870.

Author : Lawrence Douglas
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300109849

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The Memory of Judgment by Lawrence Douglas Pdf

This is an examination of the law's response to the crimes of the Holocaust. It studies exemplary proceedings including the Nuremberg trial of the major Nazi war criminals and the Israeli trials of Adolf Eichmann and John Demjanjuk.

Author : Detlef Liebs,Rebecca L.R. Garber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520259621

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Summoned to the Roman Courts by Detlef Liebs,Rebecca L.R. Garber Pdf

“This book covers sixteen ‘famous trials’—some familiar to readers with a classical background, others less well known—all of which shed light on uncommon aspects of social and legal history. Liebs draws attention to two important but relatively understudied issues in particular: the role of the judge in procedure and the significance of trials and their outcomes in the evolution of Roman law.”—Jill D. Harries, Professor of Ancient History, University of St Andrews, and author of Cicero and the Jurists.

Author : Donald R. Kelley,David Harris Sacks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521590698

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The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain by Donald R. Kelley,David Harris Sacks Pdf

Distinguished historians and literary scholars explore the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction.

Author : Samuel C. Parks
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0364990848

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The Great Trial of the Nineteenth Century (Classic Reprint) by Samuel C. Parks Pdf

Excerpt from The Great Trial of the Nineteenth Century In the preface to his treatise on International Law, William E. Hall says: Since it has come into existence, it has often been quietly ignored or brutally disregarded. The history of the world from the time of Grotius, the father of International Law, to the present day proves this to be true. Nearly every great nation has violated that law, quietly or brutally. Great Britain has perhaps been more guilty than any other nation. That the United States has been guilty of the same offense within the last two years is shown by the speeches in this book. From about one to three pages of the speeches herein ascribed to Mr. Clay, Gen. Grant, Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Madison, Count Tolstoi, and Bishop Simpson, respectively, are taken almost literally from their published works. And all of the sentiments and opinions ascribed to the twelve speakers are believed to be in harmony with their respective characters, and to correspond with what they have either done, said, or written. The greater part of the book was written six months ago. Its completion and publication have been unavoidably delayed till the present time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Benjamin Vaughan Abbott
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0428969631

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The Travelling Law-School and Famous Trials by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott Pdf

Excerpt from The Travelling Law-School and Famous Trials: First Lessons in Government and Law National powers and State powers is an incomplete classification. Our fathers carefully divided all governmental powers into three classes; one they gave to the States; another to the nation; but the third great class, compris ing the most precious of all powers, they refused to confer on the State or nation, but reserved to themselves. Garfield t/ze iv/zz'te Home, p. 443. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.