Analysis of Alain Supiot’s Homo Juridicus: On the Anthropological Function of the Law

ASSIGNMENT

In his book Homo Juridicus, Alain Supiot considers the law and the state a third person that oversees all relationships between individuals (first and second persons). The law safeguards the dignity of all persons through a process of interdiction that proscribes any conduct that reduces the human person to mere matter. Supiot also distinguishes between dogma and science and often invokes the dangers of scientism in his book.

Write an essay on these aspects of Supiot’s book Homo Juridicus in which you discuss Supiot’s views critically.

(Note well: “Discuss critically” does not mean that you must disagree with Supiot or criticise every aspect of his thinking about law. It only means that you discuss it objectively with a critical distance that also allows you to bring different perspectives into the discussion.)