Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Transformative Trials and Dilemmas of Democracy -- The Kastner Trial -- Chapter 1. Performing the Past: The Role of thePolitical Lawyer -- Chapter 2. From Faust to Kastner: The Judge as Storyteller -- Chapter 3. The Poet's Countertrial -- The Eichmann Trial -- Chapter 4. A Tale of Two Narratives -- Chapter 5. Reflective Judgment and the Spectacle of Justice -- Chapter 6. Social Criticism in the Shadow of a Transformative Trial -- The Kufr Qassem Trial -- Chapter 7. Between Ordinary Politics and Transformative Politics -- The Yigal Amir Trial -- Chapter 8. "A Jewish and Democratic State" Reconsidered -- Conclusion: Between Transformative Trials and Truth Commissions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Table of Cases -- Index.