On trial : from Adam & Eve to O.J. Simpson
"On Trial is an exegesis on legal reason, moral judgement, political life, and the events that give them meaning."--Back cover
Trial and arbitral proceedings
xx, 499 pages ; 24 cm
9780739107799, 9780739107805, 0739107798, 0739107801
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From Adam & Eve to Faustus
Clytemnestra, Electra, and Orestes
Jonah and the Ninevites
Oedipus, Creon, and Antigone
Abraham and Kierkegaard
Socrates of Athens
Jesus of Nazareth
Joan of Arc
Shylock and Shakespeare
Thomas More, the King, and the Pope
John P. Altgeld and the Haymarketers
Notorious defendants in our time
From Spiro T. Agnew to O.J. Simpson