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Legal Artifices: Ten Essays on Roman Law in the Present Tense : Ten Essays on Roman Law in the Present Tense /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Thomas, Yan (Autor)
Otros Autores: Pottage, Alain (Contribuidor), Schütz, Anton (Contribuidor), Zartaloudis, Thanos (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Colección:Encounters in Law & Philosophy : ELP
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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