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Valentin Jeutner

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The Aesthetic Authority of Law : Experiments with Legal Form

Author

  • Valentin Jeutner

Summary, in English

The legal form dictates the contours of law’s appearance. Texts are neatly divided into (often) numbered paragraphs. Pages must conform to specified layouts. Conventions regulate the use of fonts, punctuation and colours. Legal terms of art replace colloquial expressions. Human experiences enter legal texts only in mediated, sanitized forms. The dictats of legal form are all but incidental. They condition law’s authority. By repeatedly modifying the Case of the S.S. Lotus (Permanent Court of International Justice 1927), this book invites readers to consider how modifications of law’s appearance alter law’s authority.

Department/s

  • Department of Law
  • LU Profile Area: Human rights
  • Human Rights Law
  • Public International Law

Publishing year

2025-03-01

Language

English

Document type

Book

Publisher

Lund University (Media-Tryck)

Topic

  • Law

Keywords

  • Jurisprudence
  • Allmän rättslära

Status

Published

Project

  • QSHIFT: Decision-Making in the Age of Quantum AI
  • The Quantum Law Project

Research group

  • Human Rights Law
  • Public International Law

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-91-988919-8-0
  • ISBN: 978-91-988919-9-7