Presentation
No scientific language escapes metaphors, not even the one that claims the greatest precision and the least ambiguity: the language of law.
Body, head, hands, feet, birth, growth, death: these are just some of the images used to think about and express the law. Roman jurists, who were also writers, made extensive use of metaphors, not only to explain, but also to forge concepts that still resonate today. The exploration of the Corpus Iuris—this "body of law" intended by Justinian, which contains the thought of the classical jurists—continues this year, in order to better understand the extent to which law is also a matter of the imagination