Leopold and Loeb: On-line research sources
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Sites on the case
Douglas Linder's "Famous Trials" page on Leopold&Loeb
Very comprehensive; best site on the case. Contains exerpts of various speeches,
and an extensive bibliography of secondary legal sources.
Jazz Age Chicago
Leopold & Loeb Scrapbook
By Scott A. Newman. Includes contemporary newspaper articles in full from the Chicago Daily News.
Intriguing essays on local media and politics, what did and didn't make it into the
newspapers.
Crime
Library's History of Leopold & Loeb.
By Marilyn Bardsley. Lively, exciting story of the case, with many pictures.
Law Buzz on Leopold and Loeb Another retelling, somewhat less detailed. Many pictures.
Testimony of William Healy Excerpt from the testimony of William Healy, a psychiatric expert called by the defense. Posted by Paul G. E. Clemens of Rutgers, who is working with Kathy Jones and Janet Tighe on an edited version of the trial transcript.
The Clarence Darrow Home Page
From Douglas Linder again, a trove of sources on the great lawyer.
Quest for the perfect murder By Adam Harrington. Brief, useful 1995 summary from the Chicago Weekly News, one of the University of Chicago's student newspapers.
The attraction of evil
When Evil is Cool Thoughtful essay by Roger Shattuck on how evil can be made to seem glamorous by certain kinds of narratives. From the January 1999 issue of the Atlantic Monthly. Shattuck cites the Leopold and Loeb case in part II of the article.
Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche on the web By Mark Pedretti at Berkeley. Guru site listing and describing comprehensive Nietzsche resources. Unfortunately it was last updated in 1998.
Pirate Nietzsche Page Does what it says; pirates Nietzsche on the web. Collection of on-line texts, brief listing of other links.
The Nietzsche PageFrom USC; news, links, texts, etc. Currently under construction.
Project Unicorn's Nietzsche site Interesting if a little hyperdesigned site including on-line texts and some articles.
Boardman's philosophy home page. A comprehensive list of links from a philosophically convervative netophile who teaches courses on free will & determinism (among other things) at Laurence.
Freud
Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna Sponsored by the Sigmund Freud Society; good source for the life and work.
Freud: Conflict and Culture Controversial on-line exhibition from the Library of Congress. Fascinating pictures and manuscripts.
Abstracts of the Standard Edition of Sigmund Freud Edited by Carrie Lee Rothgeb. From the New York Freudian society, helpful abstracts of all twenty-three volumes of the standard edition of Freud's works. If you want to skim Freud -- in his entirety -- here's where to go.
Capital Punishment
The Justice Center's Death Penalty Page From the Univerisity of Alaska, an extremely well-structured listing of links and information. The site does not take a position on the death penalty, itself, but provides information on a wide variety of perspectives. Useful descriptions of all links are sorted by topic.
The Death Penalty Guru site from Steven D. Stewart, a Clark County, Indiana prosecutor who very strongly supports the death penalty. His Death Penalty Links page is a comprehensive, well-organized, and even-handed listing of resources on this subject. Useful descriptions of each link are included.
Angel on Death Row Superb site from PBS; a companion to their Frontline episode on Sister Helen Prejean, the author of "Dead Man Walking". Includes interviews with victim's families, extensive debate on the death penalty.
Ethics Updates - Capital Punishment Extensive listing of on-line sources from Lawrence M. Hinman at the University of San Diego.
John Stuart Mill in support of the death penalty Posted by Lawrence M. Hinman.
The Justice Project Organization protecting the rights of innocent people on death row.
Trial and Error A Chicago Tribune series of investigative reports on overly zealous prosecutors who wrongfully convict innocent people of capital offenses.
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Page last updated June 21, 2000.