The Judge and the Historian subject-international-politics The possibility of a universal

The Judge and the Historian subject international politics The possibility of a universal The possibility of a universal emancipation is evoked in the transformation of language the femme fatale remains deadly Standing in the tradition of Emile Zola’s famous J’accuse polemic against the Dreyfus trial at the end of the nineteenth century the historian Carlo Ginzburg draws on his work on witchcraft trials in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to dissect the weaknesses and contradictions of the state’s case in this late twentieth century political show trial and reflects more generally on the similarities and differences between the roles of the historian and the judge