Description
This seminar is designed to explore, from both a jurisprudential and practical point of view, some significant political trials in American history and their relationship to the American legal system. The range of choices available to lawyers in cases involving interviewing and counseling clients, case planning, working with defense committees, voir dire, and other trial skills are considered from both a theoretical and practical perspective. Each student will write an in-depth paper, and present it, on an American trial. Political trials in the international context will be used as counterpoint.
