This book is at once a treatise on legal procedure on the philosophy ofthe social sciences on political theory and on the trial as linguistic andcultural artifa... » 

This book is at once a treatise on legal procedure on the philosophy ofthe social sciences on political theory and on the trial as linguistic andcultural artifact. I know of no other book that does what this one does and Ienthusiastically recommend it to readers in the field of law and in thehumanities.David Luban Georgetown UniversityRobert Burnss coreargument is elegantly simple the trial is a performance. In exploring thehybrid discourse of the trial he leads the reader on an engaging journey intothis singular type of public performance.... Burns has written a wonderfulbook.Milner S. Ball Georgia Law School «