Legal Artifices: Ten Essays on Roman Law in the Present Tense
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By Yan Thomas, Alain Pottage (Afterword), Thanos Zartaloudis (Editor), Thanos Zartaloudis (Introduction), Cooper Francis (Editor), Anton Schütz (Introduction), Anton Schütz (Translator), Chantal Schu?tz (Translator)
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Western legal professionals habitually rely on a version of legal history that bolsters their own sway over the present. The legal mythologies undergirding these self-serving proposals are divided between doctrines of law's immemorial nature, and of its sacred (Roman) origins. Thomas's de-mythicised jurisprudence, presented in this collection of essays, dismisses these sagas. His work sent seismic waves across the humanities and social sciences, with claims including: Law is not a set of ru...






















