The Great Trials of World History and the Lessons They Teach Us
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Douglas O. Linder JD
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No understanding of the past is complete without an understanding of the legal battles and struggles that have done so much to shape it. Inside a survey of world history's greatest trials are the key insights to critical issues we still talk about today, including freedom of speech, the death penalty, religious freedom, and the meaning of equality.
Join Professor Linder for these 24 lectures that investigate important legal cases from around the world and across the centuries. From the trials of Socrates in ancient Athens and Thomas More in Henry VIII's England to the Nuremburg Trials in the wake of World War II and the media frenzy of the O. J. Simpson murder case, you'll discover what each of these trials has to teach us about ourselves and our civilization.
Professor Linder takes you back in time to revisit some of history's most famous trials from fresh perspectives that ground them in the evolution of human ideas of law and justice, including the Salem Witch Trials, and the Scopes "Monkey" Trial. You'll also encounter less familiar (but equally important) legal battles, including medieval trials by ordeal and the Trial of Giordano Bruno, which would impact the later trial of Galileo.
For years, Professor Linder has studied the fascinating intersection between history and jurisprudence. Now he's crafted these lectures to share that fascination with you.
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- Jas Singh
- 11-10-20
Should have 2 volumes
Good summary of pivotal trails from History, but I often felt that the Prof could have gone into much more minutiae, but was limited by time, 30 mins on each trail. I don't feel it was a waste of time, as I wouldn't have learnt about these cases had if not been for this book. So my critique is, not enough time was spent on each Trial
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- Andrew UK
- 13-08-18
Riveting and informative
Excellent narration covering trials in an interesting and thought provoking way.
One thing I’d change would Hebron have a higher proportion of non USA trials.
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- Tim
- 06-01-23
Great Trials!
The narrator and content were fantastic, highly recommended for anyone interested in the state of our law systems
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- Alison
- 06-08-20
Woefully underrepresented world
Although this claims to cover the great world trials, it is weighted heavily to American trials (around 50%). Considering that the civilised world (and its judicial systems) are considerably larger than America and also have been around for many several hundreds of years before the Americas even existed, it would have been nice to have the rest of the world’s trials more proportionately represented.
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- AV Maniac
- 17-02-18
Excellent, but title a little misleading
I found this hugely enjoyable - hence still offering four stars. Where many of the historical lecture series from the great courses concatenate as a single thematic narrative, one to the next, each lecture here is a self-contained story, insightfully told. My one and only gripe is how few of these trials take place outside of America. Sure, we begin with Socrates, and there's Bruno and Nuremburg, but one feels these are included only to warrant the title. The vast majority of these trials are American, and I suppose I was hoping to hear something of a more mixed, international flavour. Highly recommended nevertheless. Interesting, informative, and even shocking in places.
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- Lewis
- 17-11-24
The Great Trials of American Mythology...
It's one of the few accessible ways to learn about some very interesting legal history, for that it deserves a lot of credit and is definitely worth a listen if the area is of interest to you.
That said, I can't help but feel it would have been significantly improved with half the breadth and twice the depth. After the first few chapters, the lectures start to lack any real purpose outside of "USA = scientific, racial and social progress. Here's a trial which highlights one of those things."
Don't get me wrong, I think it's fine to include those themes but of the 24 lectures at least half solely relate to them with a handful of others pointing in that direction, just from non-American courts. This approach fails to highlight any relationship between trials and the social theme - Surely for something to be a "great trial" it needs to have caused something? Legal precedent, before or since, is all but missing from the analysis as are distinctions between different legal systems. Finally, it is disappointing that nothing from Asia!, South America, or contemporary Europe (domestic law) makes the list and that instead of explicating the importance of genuinely important trials (such as Nuremberg) we have learn about another random lawyer who made a rousing speech against the death penalty to a bunch of racists in the southern states.
As I said, worth a listen but it leaves a lot on the field. 7/10.
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