'The Aesthetics of Law' In this wideranging account, Daniel Damler examines the importance of metaphors in jurisprudence from the perspective of legal history and cognitive science. 'The Aesthetics of Law' offers new insights into the correlation between material culture, ideals of beauty and legal principles.

Daniel Damler (born 1975) is a German legal scholar and practitioner. Damler studied law, modern and medieval history at the universities of Tübingen, Frankfurt/Main and Madrid. Among his publications: 'Imperium Contrahens. Eine Vertragsgeschichte des spanischen Weltreichs in der Renaissance' (Imperium Contrahens: A history of treaties of the Spanish empire in the Renaissance, 2008); 'Wildes Recht. Zur Pathogenese des Effektivitätsprinzips in der neuzeitlichen Eigentumslehre' (Untamed Law: Toward a pathogenesis of the principle of effectiveness in modern property doctrine, 2nd Edition, 2010).

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