TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burns,Robert P.
TI  - The death of the American trial / 
SN  - 9780226081274
AV  - KF 8910  B967d 2009
U1  - 347.73347.73/7 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Ensayos estadounidenses
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Administración de justicia
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; Includes bibliographical references and index; Inside the contemporary trial -- Historical notes on the trial's importance -- The fundamental tensions the trial defines -- Decline and criticism -- The meanings of the trial's death
N2  - In The Death of the American Trial, distinguished legal scholar Robert P. Burns makes an impassioned case for reversing the rapid decline of the trial before we lose one of our public culture's greatest achievements. As a practice that is adapted for modern times yet rooted in ancient wisdom, the trial is uniquely suited to balance the tensions-between idealism and realism, experts and citizens, contextual judgment and reliance on rules-that define American culture. Arguing that many observers make a grave mistake by taking a complacent or even positive view of the trial's demise
ER  -