The International Multilingual Yearbook of Falling in Law: Vol. I Paperback – March 17, 2026

The International Multilingual Yearbook of Falling in Law inaugurates a new international forum dedicated to exploring the relationship between law and culture across languages, legal traditions, and disciplines.This first volume brings together scholars from different jurisdictions to examine how legal thought interacts with history, literature, cinema, economics, technology, and the arts. Moving from private law and constitutional reflection to financial regulation, environmental personhood, rhetoric, and jurisprudence of images, the contributions present law not merely as a technical system of rules but as a cultural practice embedded in broader intellectual and social contexts.A distinctive feature of the Yearbook is its multilingual structure. The volume includes contributions in six languages — English, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, and German — inviting readers to engage directly with diverse linguistic and legal traditions while encouraging genuine comparative reflection.The Yearbook forms part of Falling in Law – International Network of Law and Culture, an initiative that connects jurists and scholars from numerous countries with the aim of fostering dialogue between legal thought and the humanities.Edited by Antonio Albanese, Professor of Private Law at the University of Bologna — also a writer, screenwriter, and composer — the Yearbook inaugurates a long-term scholarly project devoted to understanding law as a cultural phenomenon and to strengthening international intellectual exchange among jurists.CONTENTSSezione I — Essays– G. Cerdeira Bravo de Mansilla, Erratas, errores… y traiciones en la ley [ES]– A. Maniaci, Il diritto privato: che cos’è per il neòfita [IT]– L. M. Franciosi, The strange case of financial influencers [EN]– S. Monjean-Decaudin, La personnalité juridique reconnue à la Pacha Mama (Terre Mère) [FR]– I. Terradas Saborit, Derecho y Literatura [ES]– P. D. Rush, Film, Trial and the Authority of the Image [EN]– G. Iorio, Perché non ci si sposa più in Italia? Divagazioni di un giurista [IT]– R. Roselló Manzano, El reconocimiento de los derechos o facultades de los autores [ES]– J. da Cruz Gonçalves Neto, Sobre liberdade e sadismo [PT]– P. D. Rush, Ekphrasis, Paratext and the Jurisprudence of Images [EN]– A. J. Sánchez Hidalgo, Retórica y poder, retórica y comunicación, retórica y verdad [ES]– M. C. Gruber, Zwischenrufe der Rechtskritik – zugleich ein Nachruf auf Rudolf Wiethölter [DE]– A. Albanese, The Contract as a Form of the Modern Bond: Between Economic Hegemony and Cultural Imaginary [EN]– A. Albanese, La necessità sociale della successione legittima [IT]Sezione II — Interviews– Intervista alla notaia Maria Luisa Cenni [IT]– Entrevista al prof. C. L. Lepín Molina [ES]Sezione III — Reviews– R. Cabrillac, La famille dans l’œuvre de Marcel Pagnol [FR]– A. Di Nino, Riflessioni a partire dalla canzone “Dal profondo del cuore” [IT]– P. R. Bonorino Ramírez, Consentimiento y vulnerabilidad en El silencio de Lorna [ES]– S. Bouclin e B. Ennis, Le parcours du héros: Tuer un tigre [FR]– F. Pérez de los Cobos Orihuel, Una lectura jurídica de La transformación [ES]– D. Scannebeg, Between Locke and Rousseau: The Legal Imagination of John Lennon [EN]– P. Blanco-Morales Limones, El derecho como teatralidad en el cine de Sorrentino [ES]– J. García Cívico, Arte y justicia ante lo irrepresentable [ES]– J. da Cruz Gonçalves Neto, Shrek e a fábula da modernidade política [PT] Read more