Legal Enigmas—Antonio de Nebrija, The Da Vinci Code and the Emendation of Law.
It is rare in the extreme for a judge to embed an enigma, here an intentionally encrypted message, in the text of a judgment. Using the occasion of the cypher inserted into the judgment of Peter Smith J in Baigent v Random House, this article patiently reconstructs the humanist concept of aenigmata...
| Publicado en: | Oxford Journal of Legal Studies Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 71 - 100 |
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