A01=Peter Goodrich
alternative legal systems
American Critical Legal Studies
Amor Fati
andreas
Author_Peter Goodrich
capellanus
cardozo
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common
Communis Opinio
critical legal studies
De Laudibus Legum Angliae
Edward Stillingfleet
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feminist jurisprudence
Hierarchy Of Sources Of Law
historical legal diversity
Inter Praesentes
jurisprudences
King's Norton Metals
law and literature studies
Law Journal
Law Review
Lawiers Logike
Legal Academy
legendre
Love Lane
medieval legal history
Midas Touch
minor
Minor Jurisprudences
minor jurisprudences in literature
Nursing Parent
patria
pierre
review
Sexuate Rights
Sir Henry Finch
Social Reproduction
Spiritual Law
Unwritten Tradition
Venire Facias
Women's Courts
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415061650
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Apr 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 Century Courts of Love in Paris as one instance of an alternative jurisdiction drawn from the diversities of the legal and literary past. Their textual records are correspondingly mixed in genre, being in the form of poems, narratives, plays, treaties and judicial decisions. More broadly, these studies trace certain boundaries of modern law and make up one of many forms of legal knowledge which escape today's vision of a unitary law. The author believes that the unquesionable faith in a unity law and its distance from person and emotion is precisely what makes impossible the attention to the individual that justice ultimately requires. Law in the Courts of Love shows how the historical diversity of forms and procedures of law can competently form the basis for critical revisions of contemporary legal doctrine and professional practice. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of law and literature, critical legal studies and legal history, or anyone wishing to specialise in feminist legal theory.
