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Political Trials in Theory and History

Name: Political Trials in Theory and History
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107079465
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Author: Jens Meierhenrich; Devin O. Pendas
ISBN: 9781107079465

Edited by Jens Meierhenrich · Devin O. Pendas

Cambridge University Press March 2017

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ISBN-13: 9781107079465
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: March 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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From the trial of Socrates to the post-9/11 military commissions, trials have always been useful instruments of politics. Yet there is still much that we do not understand about them.

Why do governments use trials to pursue political objectives, and when? What differentiates political trials from ordinary ones? Contrary to conventional wisdom, not all political trials are show trials or contrive to set up scapegoats.

This volume offers a novel account of political trials that is empirically rigorous and theoretically sophisticated, linking state-of-the-art research on telling cases to a broad argument about political trials as a socio-legal phenomenon. All the contributors analyse the logic of the political in the courtroom.

From archival research to participant observation, and from linguistic anthropology to game theory, the volume offers a genuinely interdisciplinary set of approaches that substantially advance existing knowledge about what political trials are, how they work, and why they matter.

1. Political trials in theory and history Jens Meierhenrich and Devin O. Pendas

2. The trial of Socrates as a political trial: explaining 399 BCE Josiah Ober

3. The trial and crucifixion of Jesus: a formal model Ron E. Hassner and Kenneth Sexauer

4. Jan Hus in the medieval ecclesiastical courts Thomas A. Fudge

5. The French Revolutionary trials Laurence Winnie

6. The Soviet Union, the Nuremberg Trials, and the politics of the postwar moment Francine Hirsch

7. 'Brown v. Board of Education': private civil litigation as a political trial Mark Tushnet

8. The Eichmann trial in law and memory Devin O. Pendas

9. In the theater of the rule of law: performing the Rivonia trial in South Africa, 1963-4 Jens Meierhenrich and Catherine M. Cole

10. China's Gang of Four trial: the law v. the laws of history Alexander C. Cook

11. Anger, honor, and truth: the political prosecution of Neopolitan organized crime Marco Jacquemet

12. 'This following orders thing is very relative': ascriptions and performances of responsibility in the Causa ESMA, 1983-7 Christiane Wilke

13. The Microsoft case as a political trial William H. Page and John E. Lopatka

14. The trials of Khodorkovsky in Russia Richard Sakwa

15. Nashiri in Gitmo: the wages of legitimacy in trials before the Guantanamo Military Commissions Lawrence Douglas.

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