Le droit, tant public que privé, structure nos vies quotidiennes. Il impose de grandes interdictions, sanctionnant aussi bien les infractions contre les biens, les personnes ou encore la morale ou la religion. Le droit privé s’intéresse à la vie familiale, aux questions de succession et au règlement...

Literary scholars have long valued open-endedness, unsettling, and disruption. And no field has been more committed to these values than Modernism. But today, as neoliberal economics undoes hopes of secure work, and as fossil fuels radically disrupt longstanding ecosystems, open-endedness is taking on a new political character. Unpredictability is not a source of pleasure and excitement for those who are anxious about finding their next meal or a safe place to sleep. Corporations praise freedom from state regulations...

Dr Eamon Maher is Director of the national Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in TU Dublin and General Editor of two book series with Peter Lang, Reimagining Ireland and Studies in Franco-Irish Studies. His main area of interest is the depiction of Catholicism in 20th-century fiction and he is currently preparing a monograph on the Catholic Novel. His most recent publication, co-edited with Eugene O'Brien, is Reimagining Irish Studies for the Twenty-First Century, which is the landmark 100th book in the Reimagining...