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Legal artifices : ten essays on Roman law in the present tense

Thomas, YanPottage, Alain(Afterword by)Schutz, Anton(Introduction by)Zartaloudis, Thanos(Introduction by)Zartaloudis, Thanos(Edited by)
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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-mythicized jurisprudence dismisses these sagas.

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Edinburgh University Press
1474446671 / 9781474446679
Hardback
340.54
05/10/2021
United Kingdom
English
356 pages
22 cm
Published in Scotland. Translated from the French.