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The Laws of Love

A Brief Historical and Practical Manual

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  • © 2007

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  1. Peter Goodrich
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Part of the book series: Language, Discourse, Society (LDS)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-2
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  2. Introduction: A Short History of the Laws of Love

    • Peter Goodrich
    Pages 3-32

  3. Erotic Melancholy

    • Peter Goodrich
    Pages 33-48

  4. Purloined Love Letters

    • Peter Goodrich
    Pages 49-64

  5. Contracts of Love

    • Peter Goodrich
    Pages 65-82

  6. Amorous Wrong by Words

    • Peter Goodrich
    Pages 83-96

  7. Delicts of Desire

    • Peter Goodrich
    Pages 97-108

  8. The Casuistry of Kissing

    • Peter Goodrich
    Pages 109-122

  9. The Dolorific Calculus

    • Peter Goodrich
    Pages 123-138

  10. Fidelity and Faithlessness

    • Peter Goodrich
    Pages 139-152

  11. Intimate Violence

    • Peter Goodrich
    Pages 153-168

  12. Suicide

    • Peter Goodrich
    Pages 169-180

  13. Gifts

    • Peter Goodrich
    Pages 181-194

  14. Conclusion: Does Love Have Standing?

    • Peter Goodrich
    Pages 195-216

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 217-231
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Your guest at dinner kisses you. What does it mean? Where does it lead? Does kissing necessarily imply more, and if so how much? These and similar questions of amorous ethics and erotic disquisition are central to our everyday intimate public lives and they are the lost object of the law of love, the lex amatoria collated and presented here.

About the author

PETER GOODRICH is Professor of Law and Director, Law and Humanities at Cardozo School of Law, New York USA. He was the founding dean of the Department of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, where he was also the Corporation of London Professor of Law. He has written extensively in the areas of law and literature and semiotics and has authored 10 books. He is editor of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law and editor-in-chief of Law and Critique.

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