Peter Goodrich: 4 books
Law in the Courts of Love
Literature and Other Minor Jurisprudences
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Law in the Courts of Love traces the literary history and diversity of past legal systems. These 'minor jurisprudences' range from the spiritual laws of the courts of conscience to the code and judgements of love handed down by women's courts in medieval France. Professor Goodrich presents the 15th...
Administering Interpretation
Derrida, Agamben, and the Political Theology of Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Features original pieces by an international group of major scholars, including such prominent figures as Stanley Fish and Bernhard Schlink (author of the bestselling novel The Reader, in addition to being a prominent legal scholar).
Nietzsche and Legal Theory
Half-Written Laws
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Nietzsche and Legal Theory is an anthology designed to provide legal and socio-legal scholars with a sense of the very wide range of projects and questions in whose pursuit Nietzsche's work can be useful. From medical ethics to criminology, from the systemic anti-Semitism of legal codes arising in...
Legal Emblems and the Art of Law
Obiter Depicta as the Vision of Governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
The emblem book was invented by the humanist lawyer Andrea Alciato in 1531. The preponderance of juridical and normative themes, of images of rule and infraction, of obedience and error in the emblem books is critical to their purpose and interest. This book outlines the history of the emblem tradition...