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Legal Artifices: Ten Essays on Roman Law in the Present Tense

Yan Thomas author Thanos Zartaloudis editor Anton Schutz editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Published:5th Oct '21

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Legal Artifices: Ten Essays on Roman Law in the Present Tense cover

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.

ISBN: 9781474446679

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360 pages