Legal Artifices: Ten Essays on Roman Law in the Present Tense

Alain Pottage is Professor of Law at SciencesPo, Paris. He was previously Professor of Law at the London School of Economics. His work focuses on the history and theory of intellectual prop- erty and questions relating to law and the Anthropocene. Yan Thomas (1943), a seminal specialist on Roman social and legal institutions and legal anthropology, taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes (Paris), until his death in 2008. Thanos Zartaloudis is a Reader in Legal Theory and History at Kent Law School, University of Kent, and Lecturer in History and Theory Studies at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. Thanos Zartaloudis is a Reader in Legal Theory and History at Kent Law School, University of Kent, and Lecturer in History and Theory Studies at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. Cooper Francis is an essayist and translator who completed his post-graduate studies at the Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kings College London. Anton Schütz is an Honorary Fellow of Kent Law School, University of Kent. He is co-editor of the book series Encounters in Law and Philosophy (EUP). His current studies focus on right-centred vs. law-centred normative orders Anton Schütz is an Honorary Fellow of Kent Law School, University of Kent. He is co-editor of the book series Encounters in Law and Philosophy (EUP). His current studies focus on right-centred vs. law-centred normative orders Chantal Schütz is Head of Department of Languages and Cultures at the École Polytechnique, Paris. Her recent work is on early modern broadside ballads; Thomas Middleton; Shakespeare; and performances history

• List of Legal AbbreviationsForeword – Operations and Artifices: The Art of the Oldest Legal Professionals Anton Schütz and Thanos Zartaloudis1. The Contrivances of Legal Institutions: Studies in Roman Law2. Legal History for Historians: A Presentation3. The Language of Roman Law: Problems and Methods4. The Law Between Words and Things: Rhetoric and Case Law in Rome 5. Artifices of Truth in the Medieval Ius Commune 6. The Subject of Right, the Person, Nature: Remarks on the Current Criticism of the Legal Subject7. Vitae Necisque Potestas: The Father, the State, Death8. On Parricide: Political Interdiction and the Institution of the Subject9. Act, Agent, Society: Fault and Guilt in Roman Legal Thinking10. The Slave’s Body and its Work in Rome: On Analysing a Juridical DissociationAfterword – A Knowledge ApartAlain PottageBiographies of Contributors

Yan Thomas was the most creative jurist, and the finest historian of Roman law, in his generation. No one did so much to study the language and reveal the thought of the Roman jurists. To have access to his work in English is an invaluable contribution.