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Fundamental Cases: The Twentieth-Century Courtroom Battles That Changed Our Nation by Alan M. Dershowitz

Fundamental Cases: The Twentieth-Century Courtroom Battles That Changed Our Nation

by Alan M. Dershowitz


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The courtroom trial has fascinated human beings from the beginning of recorded history. Trials are theater, trials are history, and the great trials of the twentieth century and beyond provide a unique window into American history and the sense of America's enduring commitment to law. It was Alexis de Tocqueville who, when he visited the new republic for the first time, said that America was a unique country when it comes to law. Every great issue eventually comes before the courts. With this in mind, esteemed professor and civil liberties lawyer Alan Dershowitz looks at history through the prism of the trial, because a trial presents a snapshot of what's going on in a particular point in time of the nation's history. What's a great trial? People will often say the trial of the moment. But those trials are often not enduring. The focus of this course is on landmark trials and the important, dramatic aspects of the history of the time in which they occurred.

Lecture 1 The Scopes Trial

Lecture 2 The Case of Leo Frank

Lecture 3 Leopold and Loeb

Lecture 4 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Lecture 5 O.J. Simpson

Lecture 6 Sacco and Vanzetti

Lecture 7 Claus von Bülow

Lecture 8 Bernhard Goetz

Lecture 9 Mike Tyson

Lecture 10 Roe v. Wade

Lecture 11 Lawrence v. Texas

Lecture 12 Bill Clinton

Lecture 13 Bush v. Gore

Lecture 14 Human Rights in the Face of Terrorism


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