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At the end of the day

Ihrem Ende eilen sie zu, die so stark im Bestehen sich wähnen. Fast schäm’ ich mich, mit ihnen zu schaffen [They end up rushing to their doom, they who think themselves so powerful. I am almost ashamed to deal with them.] Loge; Richard Wagner, Das Rheingold

At the end of the day, law?

. . . . Emperors and kings
Are but obeyed in their several provinces,
Nor can they raise the wind or rend the clouds;
But his domain that exceeds in this
Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man.
A sound magician is a mighty god.
* * *
Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,
That sometimes grew within this learned man.
Faustus is gone; regard his hellish fall,
Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise
Only to wonder at unlawful things,
Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits
To practise more than heavenly power permits.

Christopher Marlowe, "Dr. Faustus" (before 1593)

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I hope you enjoy these essays. Each treats aspects of the relationship between law, broadly understood, and human organization. My essays are about government and governance, based on the following assumptions: Humans organize themselves in all sorts of ways. We bind ourselves to organization by all sorts of instruments. Law has been deployed to elaborate differences between economic organizations (principally corporations, partnerships and other entities), political organization (the state, supra-national, international, and non-governmental organizations), religious, ethnic and family organization. I am not convinced that these separations, now sometimes blindly embraced, are particularly useful. This skepticism serves as the foundation of the essays here. My thanks to Arianna Backer for research assistance.
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