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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454921203321

Autore

Goodrich Peter <1954, >

Titolo

Law in the courts of love : literature and other minor jurisprudences / / Peter Goodrich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996

ISBN

1-134-92579-4

0-203-31617-7

1-280-10840-1

0-203-41332-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Collana

The politics of language

Disciplina

340/.09

Soggetti

Law - History

Jurisprudence

Courts of love

Critical legal studies

Law and literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Introduction: towards a minor jurisprudence; Salem and Bizance: a short history of the two laws; Law in the Courts of Love: Andreas Capellanus and the judgments of love; Eating law: commons, common land, common law; Specula laws: image, aesthetic and common law; Of law and forgetting: literature, ethics and legal judgment; Transmission and law: or, a sorrow beyond words; Fate as seduction: the other scene of legal judgment; Sleeping with the enemy: on the politics of critical legal studies in America; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the wake of current criticisms of the legal profession, Peter Goodrich presents us with a radical alternative vision of the law. He examines past legal systems offering up the possibility of a more humane system.