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 the Underworld, the Eye of God watching past, present and future, the Eye of the Prince, guiding his subjects, to the almighty Eye of the Law. While our belief in the law may have become brittle, nothing escapes...
Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two Essays on Legal History offer an original and compelling history of the ...
Written by the eminent German historian, Michael Stolleis, 'The Eye of the Law' offers an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being 'above' us.
Written by the eminent German historian, Michael Stolleis, 'The Eye of the Law' offers an original and compelling history of the symbolism through whi...
Stolleis has provided a clearly written guide to a complex tradition, and his footnotes are virtually a purchase list of basic reading in early modern political and constitutional theory." - The American Historical Review
..". the first intellectual history of the ius publicum ... that] will in all likelihood become the standard work on the subject for decades to come" - The English Historical Review
..". an imposing work ... nothing comparable has been achieved in a long time ... Now a new standard has been set." - Der Staat
This study, by one of Germany's most prominent...
Stolleis has provided a clearly written guide to a complex tradition, and his footnotes are virtually a purchase list of basic reading in early modern...
