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The Aesthetic Authority of Law : Experiments with Legal Form

Jeutner, Valentin LU orcid (2025)
Abstract
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.
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published
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Jurisprudence, Allmän rättslära
pages
717 pages
publisher
Lund University (Media-Tryck)
ISBN
978-91-988919-8-0
978-91-988919-9-7
DOI
10.37852/oblu.327
project
QSHIFT: Decision-Making in the Age of Quantum AI
The Quantum Law Project
language
English
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yes
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6a700a0b-8a15-4d3f-a345-a92c9447c509
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https://books.lub.lu.se/catalog/view/327/488/2051
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2025-04-08 10:16:26
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2025-05-14 15:47:03
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