1st Edition

The Eye of the Law Two Essays on Legal History

By Michael Stolleis Copyright 2009
96 Pages
by Birkbeck Law Press

94 Pages
by Birkbeck Law Press

96 Pages
by Birkbeck Law Press

Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two ‘Essays on Legal History’ offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being 'above' us. In ‘The Eye of the Law’, the history of this metaphor is followed from antiquity through to the present day: from the Greek Eye of Justice, the eye of the impartial judge of... Read more
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Biography

Michael Stolleis