Legal Artifices: Ten Essays on Roman Law in the Present Tense : : Ten Essays on Roman Law in the Present Tense / / Yan Thomas.
The first English-language anthology of Yan Thomas, whose contributions to Roman law revolutionised legal scholarshipCollects and translates 10 essays by Yan Thomas (1943–2008), the most renowned French jurist of the 20th centuryProvides a juridical perspective on the genealogy of the Western subjec...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Encounters in Law & Philosophy : ELP
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Copyright Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Foreword – Operations and Artifices: The Art of the Oldest Legal Professionals
- 1. The Contrivances of Legal Institutions: Studies in Roman Law
- 2. Legal History for Historians: A Presentation
- 3. The Language of Roman Law: Problems and Methods
- 4. The Law between Words and Things: Rhetoric and Case Law in Rome
- 5. Artifices of Truth in the Medieval ius commune
- 6. The Subject of Right, the Person, Nature: Remarks on the Current Criticism of the Legal Subject
- 7. Vitae Necisque Potestas: The Father, the State, Death
- 8. On Parricide: Political Interdiction and the Institution of the Subject
- 9. Act, Agent, Society: Fault and Guilt in Roman Legal Thinking
- 10. The Slave’s Body and its Work in Rome: On Analysing a Juridical Dissociation
- Afterword – A Knowledge Apart
- Biographies of Contributors