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

The first English-language anthology of Yan Thomas, whose contributions to Roman law revolutionised legal scholarship Collects and translates 10 essays by Yan Thomas (1943–2008), the most renowned French jurist of the 20th centuryProvides a juridical perspective on the genealogy of the Western subject and the elementary conditions for the exercise of powerBuilds on the growing interest in Thomas’ work generated by recent engagements, such as in Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer seriesDemonstrates the