Pierre Legendre (15 June 1930 – 3 March 2023) was a French historian of law and psychoanalyst. Legendre held a position of research director at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. His work is primarily devoted to the history of juristic institutions and concepts ( Roman law and Canon law) and to the anthropology of Western civilization. ^{[1] [2]}

Legendre was born in Villedieu-les-Poêles, Normandy on 15 June 1930. He collaborated in the making of a number of films, shown on Arte and other television stations: The Fashioning of Western Man (1996), Mirror of a Nation: Ecole Nationale d'Administration and Dominium Mundi: The Empire of Management (2007), all produced and distributed by Ideale Audience International, Paris.

Legendre died on 3 March 2023, at the age of 92. ^[1]

References

• ^ Goodrich, Peter, Lior Barshack and Anton Schutz (Eds.), 2006, Law, Text, Terror, Oxon, Routledge-Cavendish. ISBN  978-1-904385-25-7
• ^ Goodrich, Peter and Ronnie Warrington (translated by Alain Pottage), 1990, "The lost temporality of law: An interview with Pierre Legendre", Law and Critique, 1(1-2), pp. 3–20.
• Law and the Unconscious by Pierre Legendre, ed. Peter Goodrich, Palgrave Macmillan 1997. ISBN  0-312-21023-X

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