The Law and the Line: The Literary Mirroring of a Paradigm
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Tommaso dalla Massara
Tommaso dalla Massara is Full Professor of Roman Law and Foundations of European Private Law at the University of Verona. Among his works, one could mention
Alle origini della causa del contratto (2004) andObbligazioni pecuniarie. Struttura e disciplina dei debiti di valuta (2012). His research interests in the fields of Roman, Civil and European Law include Procedural Law, Sales Law, Good Faith Principle and Arbitration Law. Author of many publications in both Italian and foreign journals (such asRivista di diritto civile andZeitschrift für Gemeinschaftsprivatrecht ), he has participated in many conferences in Italy and abroad.
Abstract
The essay deals with the topic of “border” in the light of the conceptual and etymological link between ideas of Law and Line. Starting from the mythological origins of Rome, passing through Kafka and Shakespeare, Defoe and Dostoyevsky, both the multiform and ancestral need of drawing juridical lines and the consequences of their overcoming are highlighted. The line, seen as both a territorial and a metaphorical border, as a boundary between “what is mine” from “what is yours,” as a separation between what is allowed and what is not, is described as a well-marked sign, reminding Kandinsky’s paintings, but also as a concept sometimes indeterminate, especially when we consider certain “foggy issues” of the contemporary times, such as the proprietary relationship between a person and its body.
About the author
Tommaso dalla Massara is Full Professor of Roman Law and Foundations of European Private Law at the University of Verona. Among his works, one could mention Alle origini della causa del contratto (2004) and Obbligazioni pecuniarie. Struttura e disciplina dei debiti di valuta (2012). His research interests in the fields of Roman, Civil and European Law include Procedural Law, Sales Law, Good Faith Principle and Arbitration Law. Author of many publications in both Italian and foreign journals (such as Rivista di diritto civile and Zeitschrift für Gemeinschaftsprivatrecht), he has participated in many conferences in Italy and abroad.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Focus
- Law and Borders: Territory, Space and Time between Diversity and Protection
- The Law and the Line: The Literary Mirroring of a Paradigm
- Half of a Yellow Sun or the Quest for (and Repression of) New Boundaries in Post-Colonial Nigeria: An International Law Analysis
- Freedom’s Frontiers: The Travails of LGBT Travelers
- Queering the Border: Walter Pater’s “Sebastian Van Storck” and the Apocalypse of the Self
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- Research
- A Revenger’s Tragedy
- Translation, Copyright & Authority
- Semantics of Chaos: Modernity, Law and the Commons
- Tubal, Shylock, and the Myth of Venice
- Law Meets Literature: Raphael Lemkin and Genocide Studies
- Literature, Art and the Democracy to Come: A Legal Approach to The Danish Girl
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