The mirror of justice : literary reflections of legal crises /
This book studies major works of literature from classical antiquity to the present that reflect crises in the evolution of Western law: the move from a prelegal to a legal society in The Eumenides, the Christianization of Germanic law in Njal's Saga, the disenchantment with medieval customary...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1997]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. Introduction
- Ch. 2. The Birth of Justice from the Spirit of Tragedy
- Ch. 3. The Ambivalence toward Pagan Law
- Ch. 4. The Role of Rome
- Ch. 5. The Disenchantment with Customary Law
- Ch. 6. The Reception of Roman Law in Germany
- Ch. 7. European Variations
- Ch. 8. Law and Equity I
- Ch. 9. Law and Equity II
- Ch. 10. The Attractions of Codification
- Ch. 11. The Modern Crisis of Law
- Ch. 12. Twentieth-Century Legal Evolutions.