From the trial of Socrates to the post-9/11 military commissions, trials have always been useful instruments of politics. Yet there is still much that we do not

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The modern use of international tribunals to try heads of state for genocide and crimes against humanity is often considered a positive development. In A Histor

Political trials take issues of responsibility, conscience, representation, and legitimacy, which are tied in tight political and legal knots, and force us to f

For as long as accuser and accused have faced each other in public, criminal trials have been establishing far more than who did what to whom–and in this fasc