Academic

Krever on Supiot on Law & the Market

By Lawrence Solum

Tor Krever (University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law) has posted Calling Power to Reason? (New Left Review, No. 65, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

Review essay of Alan Supiot's Homo Juridicus: On the Anthropological Function of the Law. The article discusses Supiot's anthropologically grounded case against the subordination of law to the logic of the market. It considers Supiot's account of the origins of Western law and his inquiry into its humanizing, anthropological function, one that risks being buried by ?scientific? approaches that ignore the human being as subject and treat her as mere object. A central focus is Supiot's critique of the Law and Economics movement and his prescriptions for a global social hermeneutics.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on February 15, 2011 (boomark / email).