Leadership crimes in Shakespeare: accountability and deniability

Speaker
Judge Theodor Meron
Event date
Event time
17:00 - 18:00
Venue
Trinity College
Broad Street
Oxford
OX1 3BH
Venue details

de Jager Auditorium

Event type
Lectures and seminars
Event cost
£10 / £5 students
Disabled access?
Yes
Booking required
Required

Theodor Meron, former Judge and President of UN war crimes tribunals and now Honorary Fellow of Trinity and Oxford Visiting Professor of Law, lays bare the moral compromises and the efforts of leaders and courtiers in Shakespeare’s plays to preserve deniability for crimes, strategies still resorted to by modern actors.

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