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Famous Trials
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Video Lectures
Famous Trials Chatroom
Trials Bulletin Board
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Instructor
Inquiries:
linderd@umkc.edu
or
816-235-2375
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Podcasts (TENTATIVE)
click on a title below to download the podcast
A Non-Lawyer's
Trial Playbook
1. What
non-lawyers should know about prosecutors and defense attorneys
2. What
non-lawyers should know about judges and juries
3. What
non-lawyers should know about special types of trials: courts martial,
trial by military commission, impeachment trials, and trials by
international tribunals
Teaching
Trials
4. Why teach
trials?
5. Turning
points in trials--and in history
6. Using
primary documents to teach trials
7. Using videos to teach trials
8. Using mock trials
Random Thoughts
9. What is
justice?
10. The
nature of evil
11. The
"butterfly effect": history didn't have to be this way
12. The importance of the individual in shaping history
13. The importance of economic and social forces in shaping
history
14. The importance of not being boring
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