RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 67
November
2009
PART XIII:
Law
See also
items 53, 108, 159, 160 & 161.
168.
HOMEM, António Pedro Barbas. Judex
perfectus: função jurisdicional e estatuto judicial em
Portugal 1640-1820. Coimbra:
Almedina, 2003. Colecção Teses. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps.
901 pp., (6 l.). 12 color plates. Profuse footnotes,
detailed and thorough bibliography, index of important
concepts. ISBN: 978-972-40-1989-6. $110.00
Originally
presented as his doctoral thesis, Professor António Pedro
Barbas Homem, from the School of Law at Universidade de
Lisboa, sets forth a thorough, detailed and most impressive
work on judges, the act of judging and laws in Portugal
between 1640 and 1820. The first pages of this work contain
a summary and breakdown of the different chapters that are
divided into sections and subsequent numbered paragraphs.
The chapters are titled "A função de julgar", "O império da
lei", "A educação jurídica", "O ofício de juiz", "A
responsibilidade judicial", and "O juiz perfeito". At the
end, there is the a 10-page"Conclusion". One of the many
interesting things about this text is that throughout the
work, Barbas Homem refers not only to laws and important
works in the history of law in Portugal, but also makes
relevant comments and quotations from philosophers such as
Kant, Hume, John Locke, Leibniz, Hobbes, Sartre, and
Wittgenstein, among many others. The color plates at the
end of the work show a variety of themes. Ten of the plates
are crisp reproductions of book illustrations ca.
1640-1741. The two remaining plates are vibrant
reproductions of paintings, one dated from the seventeenth
century depicting an important judge, the other is titled
"A apresentação pública de um juiz de fora" dated 1710.
169.
ROSA, António Machuco. Os direitos
de autor e os novos média. Coimbra:
Angelus Novus, 2009. Biblioteca Minima, 1. Sm. 8°, orig.
prtd. wrps. 122 pp., (1 l.), diagram in text, printed in
red and black. ISBN: 978-972-8827-54-0. $28.00
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