Legal Artifices: Ten Essays on Roman Law in the Present T...
Thomas, Yan / Zartaloudis, Thanos / Francis, Cooper / Jaquet, Chantal / Schütz, Anton / Schu&
Presents for the first time in English ten essays of Yan Thomas (1943-2008), whose contributions to Roman law revolutionised legal scholarship. 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 ju...