Legal artifices ten essays on Roman law in the present tense / Yan Thomas ; edited by Thanos Zartaloudis, Cooper Francis ; translated by Anton Schutz, Chantal Schutz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Yan, author.

Pottage, Alain, author.

Zartaloudis, Thanos, author.

Series:

Encounters in Law & Philosophy : ELP

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roman law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This volume collects and translates 10 essays by renowned Roman and legal history specialist Yan Thomas (1943-2008), the most renowned French jurist of the 20th century.

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

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-4744-4670-1

1-4744-4669-8

OCLC:

1289819850