Theatre & Law offers the first comprehensive account of the complex relations between legal process and performances. Through ten major principles of performance within law, it establishes how law itself is a performative mode of practice and reflects upon the co-dependence of law, performance and politics in celebrated works of theatre.
Part I
Within the Law: Ten Rules of Engagement
Part II
Before the Law: The Life and Death of Homo Juridicus
Part III
Beyond the Law: Extraordinary Rendition
Further Reading.