Famous Trials and Lawyers

Famous Trials and Lawyers

 

Famous trials and lawyers have always fascinated people as they highlight key issues in history, shed light on our societies and contribute to legal development in the criminal, political, literary and ethical spheres. This selection from our library collection, covers several renowned lawyers as well as war crimes trials, literary trials, and trials of political figures for loan.

Visit the display at Level 3 of Kwa Geok Choo Law Library from 24 July to 3 August or you can immediately browse and borrow these eBooks:

No. Title / Author
1

Bryan and Darrow at Dayton : the record and documents of the "Bible-Evolution Trial" / John Thomas Scopes, Leslie Henri Allen

e-book

2

In the beginning : fundamentalism, the Scopes trial, and the making of the antievolution movement / Michael Lienesch

e-book

3

Summer for the Gods : the Scopes Trial and America's continuing debate over science and religion / Edward J Larson

e-book

4

Australia’s war crimes trials 1945-51 / Georgina Fitzpatrick

e-book

5

Bloodlust / Alex Josey 

Kwa Geok Choo Law Library   Books Level 4   KNC41.M87 J67 2009

6

Daviborshch's cart narrating the Holocaust in Australian war crimes trials / David. Fraser

e-book

7

The Ethiopian red terror trials : transitional justice challenged / Kjetil Tronvoll,  Charles Schaefer, Girmachew Alemu

e-book

8

Famous cases : nine trials that changed the law / Brian P. Block, John Hostettler

e-book

9

Forgotten trials of the Holocaust / Michael J. Bazyler and Frank M. Tuerkheimer

e-book

10

The hidden histories of war crimes trials / Kevin Heller, Gerald Simpson, Rosa Ana Alija Fernández

e-book

11

The Iraqi Special Tribunal for Crimes Against Humanity : the Dujail case / Ellen van Heugten

Kwa Geok Choo Law Library   Books Level 4   KMJ41.H87 I73 2011

12

The juridical unconscious : trials and traumas in the twentieth century / Shoshana Felman

e-book

13

The Miloševic trial : lessons for the conduct of complex international criminal proceedings / Gideon Boas

Kwa Geok Choo Law Library   Books Level 4   K5000 .B63 2007  

14

The most remarkable woman in England poison, celebrity and the trials of Beatrice Pace / John Wood

e-book

15

From Nuremberg to the Hague : the future of international criminal justice/ Philippe Sands

Kwa Geok Choo Law Library   Books Level 4   KZ6310 .F76 2003

16

Paranoia of the millionaire" Harry K. Thaw's 1907 insanity defense / Emil R. Pinta

e-book

17

The Pinochet effect : transnational justice in the age of human rights / Naomi Roht-Arriaza

Kwa Geok Choo Law Library   Books Level 4   KH966.I57 R64 2006  

18

San Francisco's queen of vice : the strange career of abortionist Inez Brown Burns / Lisa Riggin

e-book

19

Subhas Anandan : it's easy to cry / Subhas Anandan

Kwa Geok Choo Law Library   Books Level 4   KPP11.A3 A53 2015

20

Subhas Anandan: the best I could / Subhas Anadan

Kwa Geok Choo Law Library   Books   Level 4   KPP11.A3 A53 2009

21

The Tokyo Rose case : treason on trial / Yasuhide Kawashima

e-book

22

The Tokyo war crimes trial the pursuit of justice in the wake of World War II / Yuma Totani

e-book

23

Travesty : the trial of Slobodan Milošević and the corruption of international justice / John Laughland

e-book

24

Trials for international crimes in Asia / Kirsten Sellars

Kwa Geok Choo Law Library   Books Level 4   KZ7230 .T79 2016   

25

12 angry men / Reginald Rose; Henry Fonda 1905-1982.; Sidney Lumet 1924-; 

DVD

Li Ka Shing Library   Media Collection Level 2   PN1997 .T84 2001    

26

War crimes trials in the wake of decolonization and Cold War in Asia, 1945-1956 : justice in time of turmoil / Kerstin von Lingen

e-book

27

Authors in court : scenes from the theater of copyright / Mark Rose

Kwa Geok Choo Law Library   Books Level 4   K1420.5 .R67 2016

28

Literary trials : exceptio artis and theories of literature in court / Ralf Grüttemeier

e-book

29

Contemporary Supreme Court cases : landmark decisions since Roe v. Wade /  Donald E. Lively, D. Scott. Broyles

Kwa Geok Choo Law Library   Books Level 4   KF4550.Z9 L58 2016  

30

Public trials : Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the politics of lost causes / Lida Maxwell

e-book

31

The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair America on trial / Moshik Temkin

e-book

32

Saving Nelson Mandela : the Rivonia trial and the fate of South Africa / Kenneth S. Broun

e-book

33

Contemporary Supreme Court cases : landmark decisions since Roe v. Wade /  Donald E. Lively, D. Scott. Broyles

Kwa Geok Choo Law Library   Books Level 4   KF4550.Z9 L58 2016  

34

Prosecuting heads of state / Ellen L. Lutz, Caitlin Reiger 

e-book

35

Race, sex, and the freedom to marry : loving v. Virginia / Peter Wallenstein

e-book

36

The Supreme Court in the intimate lives of Americans birth, sex, marriage, childrearing, and death / Howard Ball

e-book

37

The trial in American life / Robert A. Ferguson

e-book

38

Erin Brockovich / Danny DeVito; Michael Shamberg; Stacey Sher; Susannah Grant; Steven Soderbergh 1963-; Julia Roberts 1967-; Albert Finney 1936-; Aaron Eckhart 

DVD

Li Ka Shing Library   Media Collection Level 2   PN1995.9.J8 E7 2000    

39

Twenty famous lawyers / John Hostettler

e-book

40

The Milošević trial : an autopsy / Timothy William Waters 

Kwa Geok Choo Law Library   Books Level 4   KZ1203.M55 M56 2013  

41

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

e-book

 

Banner Image: Mamoru Shinozaki [Digital Image]. (n.d.). Retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamoru_Shinozaki
First war crimes trial to be held in South East Asia Command at the Singapore Supreme Court on 21 January 1946