Theory of Legal Monsters: Repression, Resistance, Rebellion

The monograph provides coverage of an extensive history of Western thought by distinguishing two kinds of ‘legal monsters’: those as objects of legal regulations, as well as those as a source of criticism. The claim in this volume is twofold. On the one hand, drawing on the Roman law’s notion of ‘monstrum vel prodigium’, the assumption is that the formula should be considered as legally defunct no...