Bodin's Juris Universi Distributio

For some years, I've been working on a study of Jean Bodin's Juris Universi Distributio, a general outline of law that Bodin wrote most likely when he was transition from a career as a legal academic to a practitioner in the Parlement of Paris.  The project started as a textual study (based on a translation prepared by Jason Brown), accompanying my other major study on Bodin.  It has evolved into a collection of papers on Bodin's legal theory and Renaissance jurisprudence.  

Bodin, Juris Universi Distributio (Paris: Jacques Du Puys, 1578) fol. A.  Courtesy of Princeton University Library.  Photo: Daniel Lee, 2022.

This is a very unusual work, and I am hoping to finish this project soon which will be published by Oxford University Press.  I will use this space to record occasional updates and share some previews of the book as it continues to take shape.