Victoria Wohl is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto. Her previously published work includes Love Among the Ruins: The Erotics of Democracy in Classical Athens (2002) and Intimate Commerce: Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy (1998).
Preface: before the law
Introduction: the rhetoric of law
Part I. The Boundaries of Legal Discourse: 1. The world of law: oratory and authority
2. Legal violence and the limit of justice
Part II. The Legal Subject: 3. Legal fictions: subjects probable and improbable
4. Logos biou: law's life stories
Part III. Time, Memory, Reproduction: Law's Past and Future: 5. Civic amnesia and legal memory: remembering and forgetting in the lawcourts
6. Family/law: legal genealogies
Conclusion: the paradigmatic law.
