Download or read book Studies in Law, Politics, and Society written by Austin Sarat and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trials are well known as paradigmatic legal events. Some attract wide attention; others mostly escape notice. This title brings together the work of some of the leading scholars to think about the nature, utility, and limits of trials.