Southern Europe (Italy, Iberian Peninsula, France)
António Manuel Hespanha
In this chapter, law is taken as a set of related communicative systems. The idea legal systems or spheres emphasizes the coexistence plurality laws according to factors differentiation other than global entities, mostly nation state pre-comprehension, like ‘races’ ‘nations’, ‘kingdoms’. What would matter be setting shared dispositives ‘telling (uncovering, creating) law’. This approach problematizes established assumptions, separation between ‘romanistic’ and ‘germanistic’ laws, all-inclusiveness ‘national’ unity learned law. Conversely, it supports emergent research interests on: artificiality complexity porosity ‘Germanic’ ‘foreign’ influences, impact materialities communication over form even content, in same territory different communities, separated by divides.
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