1st Edition

Birth of the European Individual Law, Security, Economy

By Samuli Hurri Copyright 2014
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the birth of the European individual as a juridical problem, focusing on legal case dossiers from the European Court of Justice as an electrifying laboratory for the study of law and society. Foucault’s story of the modern subject constitutes the book’s main theoretical inspiration, as it considers the encounter between legal and other practices within a more general field of... Read more

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Problematisations Part I: Human Forms Chapter 3 Homo juridicus and homo œconomicus Chapter 4 Royer: rights and decisions Chapter 5 Lawbreaker and delinquent Part II: Power Chapter 6 Law and war Chapter 7 Bouchereau: public good and rule of law Chapter 8 Law and order Part III: Knowledge Chapter 9 Knowledge of society Chapter 10 Adoui & Cornuaille: legality and equity Chapter 11 Knowledge of the individual Chapter 12 Recapitulation, conclusion Bibliography List of cases Index

Biography

Samuli Hurri is based at the University of Helsinki, Finland