The Law of Beauty: The Troubled Relationship Between Law and Aesthetics

This book examines the longstanding, yet ambiguous and deeply complex, relationship between law and aesthetics.

Despite numerous studies dedicated to the topic, the relationship between aesthetics and law tends to be interpreted as one between two approaches, two thematic horizons, two disciplines, or two distinct semantic universes. Conversely, the book argues that legal phenomena cannot be properly understood without grasping the relevance of aesthetics within the experience of law itself,...