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Famous Trials <www.umkc.edu/famoustrials>. Created by Professor Doug Linder and maintained by the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School. Reviewed April 5-12, 2001.
Law school professors have long been in a state of suspended animation when it comes to information technology. Some have awakened from their slumber; others remain in a coma, perhaps never to gain network consciousness. Professor Doug Linder is an exception to this general rule. His engaging web creation, Famous Trials, is an amalgam of primary documents and narrative essays serving his pedagogical objectives, but the material clearly has wide appeal.
Linder has selected twenty-one trials for detailed study. Nearly all are rooted in the American legal experience. (The two exceptions are the Nuremberg trials following World War 11 and the Oscar Wilde trials at the end of the nineteenth century.)
The trials cover a wide range of criminal conduct....