From the costuming of judges and legislators to staging of the courtroom, law is performed as much as performance makes and breaks the rules. In this class, we will look more closely at this relationship between performance and law in the work of theorists and in various plays and performance pieces both classic and contemporary. We will study the role of the witness, judge and jury, embodiment, scripting, and affect, as well as how the law operates in alternative forms of law and lawmaking outside of the state, in civil disobedience, and in community tribunals.