{"product_id":"9781041134381","title":"Individual Will and the Civil Law Tradition: Rethinking Lex Privata","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume sets out to explore the relationship between individual will (\u003ci\u003evoluntas\u003c\/i\u003e) and the legal rule. What unfolds in the following pages is a wide-ranging itinerary, moving between past and present, most notably ancient Rome and the contemporary world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe guiding question is as radical as it is enduring: in what way can \u003ci\u003evoluntas \u003c\/i\u003e(a psychological impulse internal to the individual) come to determine the legal rule? European private law tradition rests on the premise that legally binding acts – contract and will, to mention only two paradigmatic cases – derive their force from individual will. From the Roman sources arises, with exemplary force, the notion of \u003ci\u003elex privata\u003c\/i\u003e: the idea that private will itself may generate binding legal norms. Such a premise immediately leads to further questions. Above all, it compels reflection on the authenticity of that will: what if \u003ci\u003evoluntas \u003c\/i\u003eis compromised? The law of defects (\u003ci\u003eerror\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003edolus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003emetus\u003c\/i\u003e) opens the problem of whether distorted or corrupted will can truly sustain the validity and effects of a legal rule.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe reflections gathered in this book approach the European civil law tradition as a broad and unified phenomenon, one in which law is inseparably bound to the historical and cultural contexts in which it takes shape.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47754203070705,"sku":"9781041134381","price":233.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781041134381_p0.jpg?v=1771432923","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781041134381","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}