The Laws of Love A Brief Historical and

You are at a dinner with someone attractive. She suddenly kisses you. Or he leans unexpectedly across the table and caresses your thigh. Whatever. You know the kind of encounter and the range of possible responses. Consider the kiss. What does it mean, and where does it lead? Does kissing necessarily imply more, and if so how much? These and similar questions of amorous ethics and erotic disquisition are the central to our everyday intimate public lives and they are the lost object of the law of love, the lex amatoria collated and presented here.

Peter Goodrich is Director of the Program in Law and Humanities, Cardozo School of Law, New York, USA.

Introduction : a short history of the laws of love	p. 3
Erotic melancholy	p. 33
Purloined love letters	p. 49
Contracts of love	p. 65
Amorous wrong by words	p. 83
Delicts of desire	p. 97
The casuistry of kissing	p. 109
The dolorific calculus	p. 123
Fidelity and faithlessness	p. 139
Intimate violence	p. 153
Suicide	p. 169
Gifts	p. 181
Conclusion : does love have standing?	p. 195
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