Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
This course will look at five very different cases in which a courtroom was the forum for bigger issues. King Charles I had lost the civil war when he faced trial by Parliament for tyranny; Caroline of Brunswick, unlucky consort of the Prince Regent, faced an equally political trial for adultery. Sir Roger Casement, who revealed the slavery in the Belgian Congo, faced a treason charge for his support for Irish Republicans during the First World War, while on the moral front, Darwinism stood trial in 1920s Tennessee and sexual morality in the 1960 ‘Lady Chatterley’ prosecution of Penguin Books. This course can be taken with W35Am25 in Week 3, or as a stand-alone course.
© 2025 University of Cambridge