This volume sets out to explore the relationship between individual will (voluntas)
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.
The guiding question is as radical as it is ...
This volume sets out to explore the relationship between individual will (voluntas)
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.
The guiding question is as radical as it is enduring: in what way can voluntas (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 lex privata: 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 voluntas is compromised? The law of
defects (error, dolus, metus) opens the problem of whether distorted or corrupted
will can truly sustain the validity and effects of a legal rule.
The 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.
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