Fables of the Law - Fairy Tales in a Legal Context (Hardcover, Digital original)

The latest development concerning the metaphorical use of the fairy tale is the legal perspective. The law had and has recourse to fairy tales in order to speak of the nomos and its subversion, of the politically correct and of the various means that have been used to enforce the law. Fairy tales are a fundamental tool to examine legal procedures and structures in their many failings and errors. Therefore, we have privileged the term "fables" of the law just to stress the ethical perspective: they are moral parables that often speak of justice miscarried and justice sought. Law and jurists are creators of "fables" on the view that law is born out of the facts (ex facto ius oritur) so that there is a need for narrative coherence both on the level of the case and the level of legislation (or turned the other way around: what does it mean if no such coherence is found?). This is especially of interest given the influx of all kinds of new technologies that are "fabulous" in themselves and hard to incorporate in traditional doctrinal schemes and thus in the construction of a new reality.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Law & Literature
Release date:	October 2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Daniela Carpi • Marett Leiboff
Dimensions:	230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	463
Edition:	Digital original
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-049472-3
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > General
LSN:	3-11-049472-8
Barcode:	9783110494723

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