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Forthcoming in the Book Series with EUP ENCOUNTERS IN LAW AND PHILOSOPHY SERIES EDITORS: Thanos Zartaloudis & Anton Schütz General Advisor: Giorgio Agamben Yan Thomas Legal Artifices -Ten Essays on Roman Law in the Present Tense... more
This chapter examines the relationship between Law and Life and the making of the juridical person through the exemplary case of the Court of Miracles. The inhabitants of this seventeenth-century courtyard, a spatial amalgam, or 'immense... more
Paru dans la revue Nunc, numéro 29, février 2013
http://corlevour.com/fr/revue/nunc-n%C2%B029
http://corlevour.com/fr/revue/nunc-n%C2%B029
Historien du droit romain, Yan Thomas fut un penseur inclassable. Ses recherches érudites et novatrices n’ont pas cessé d’interpeller les sciences sociales qui y ont trouvé les ressources pour repenser les objets et les catégories à... more
This is an open call for book proposals for the Book Series titled Encounters in Law and Philosophy, published with EUP. Contact me to discuss your ideas or a proposal at any stage of its making. Details in the attached.
La crisis de legitimidad de las instituciones jurídicas contemporáneas, diagnosticada en el último siglo desde las obras de Max Weber y Carl Schmitt hasta las de Jürgen Habermas y Giorgio Agamben, parece no encontrar respuestas en las... more
Material support for every kind of genetic modification and moral support for disparate instances of power that aim at its discipline and exploitation, human life is according to Ivan Illich the victim of an institutional fetishization.... more
The essay focuses on the question of the compensation for damages suffered by a child before his birth. Most notably, the Author tries to demonstrate how legal action to compensate the damage caused before birth does not at all imply what... more
Dans ce livre posthume composé d’articles remaniés, Yan Thomas étudie la puissance du père sur le fils, véritable pilier de la cité romaine nécessaire à la construction du sujet de droit. À Rome, les lois érigent une société patriarcale,... more
O presente artigo pretende explorar um tema ainda incipiente na literatura secundária referente ao estatuto do direito em Giorgio Agamben e ao peso do direito romano em seus trabalhos. Para isso lançamos mão do debate entre... more