The Mythology of Modern Law: At 25 Years (Melbourne Law School, 11-12 May 2017)
In the opening sentence of Peter Fitzpatrick’s seminal book, The Mythology of Modern Law, first published in 1992, the claim that “law as a unified entity can only be reconciled with its contradictory existences if we see it as myth†is described as the first chapter’s “suspiciously simple argumentâ€. Few perhaps would regard even that…