Pierre Legendre (15 June 1930 – 3 March 2023) was a French historian of law and

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. Legendre held a position of research director at the

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. His work is primarily devoted to the history of juristic institutions and concepts (

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and

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) and to the anthropology of

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. Legendre was born in

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on 15 June 1930. He collaborated in the making of a number of films, shown on

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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.

References

* Goodrich, Peter, Lior Barshack and Anton Schutz (Eds.), 2006, ''Law, Text, Terror'', Oxon, Routledge-Cavendish. * 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. 1930 births 2023 deaths People from Manche French essayists 20th-century French historians University of Paris alumni Academic staff of the University of Paris Academic staff of Pantheon-Sorbonne University Academic staff of the École pratique des hautes études French psychoanalysts French male essayists {{France-academic-bio-stub