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Please call or email to be placed on the waiting list. Overflow seating with audio/video feed will be available in the Buttery.

This lecture series considers a theme that is familiar to every student of the legal process - the relationship between what goes on in high-profile trials and what goes on in the world of dramatic productions. Marrus' analysis will use three examples, classics in the history of great trials: the three trials of Oscar Wilde at the Old Bailey in London (1895); the Stalin-era show trial of Nikolai Bukharin and others in Moscow (1938); and the trial of the major German war criminals at Nuremberg (1945).

Co-sponsored by Trinity College and St. Thomas's Anglican Church. Reception to follow in the Buttery.

Space is very limited. Please RSVP to 416-978-2651 or alumni@trinity.utoronto.ca

Trinity Fellow Michael Marrus is the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto and a Senior Fellow of Massey College. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Member of the Order of Canada, he received MA and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a visiting fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford; the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and has taught as a visiting professor at UCLA and the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is the author of several prize-winning books including: Vichy France and the Jews (with Robert Paxton); The Unwanted: European Refugees in the Twentieth Century; The Holocaust in History, Mr. Sam: The Life and Times of Samuel Bronfman; and The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1945-46.  He is completing a book on the Holocaust restitution campaign of the 1990s, entitled Some Measure of Justice.