In the wake of current criticisms of the legal profession, Peter Goodrich presents us with a radical alternative vision of the law. He examines past legal systems offering up the possibility of a more humane system.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Salem and Bizance; Chapter 2 Law in the Courts of Love; Chapter 3 Eating law; Chapter 4 Specula laws; Chapter 5 Of law and forgetting; Chapter 6 Transmission and law; Chapter 7 Fate as seduction; Chapter 8 Sleeping with the enemy;