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Book SynopsisThe courtroom speeches of classical Athens created a new legal world and worldview. Law's Cosmos analyzes this jurisprudential world, exploring its boundaries and how it maintains them, its sources of authority and uses of violence, its diverse inhabitants, and its relation to the past and future.
Table of ContentsPreface: before the law; Introduction: the rhetoric of law; Part I. The Boundaries of Legal Discourse: 1. The world of law: oratory and authority; 2. Legal violence and the limit of justice; Part II. The Legal Subject: 3. Legal fictions: subjects probable and improbable; 4. Logos biou: law's life stories; Part III. Time, Memory, Reproduction: Law's Past and Future: 5. Civic amnesia and legal memory: remembering and forgetting in the lawcourts; 6. Family/law: legal genealogies; Conclusion: the paradigmatic law.
