TWO BOOKS ON THE TOP SHELF

Each new shooting star in the sky, each sound of a clock striking midnight on New Year’s Eve, and even each shrill ring of a morning alarm clock, gives birth to one, or even two, new law books. It is not easy to manage this flow of publications, which threatens to turn into a veritable flood. Legal literature intended to be strictly professional helps to properly divide an inheritance, decrease the tax burden, or accomplish other useful and important things. Although this type of literature is a necessity recognized by the chaotic courts of justice, the so-called upper shelves of the bookcase often remain unattended because of lack of time and physical strength. In this review the author draws attention to books occupying the upper shelves of a legal bookcase representing two classical legal traditions – the Continental European and the Anglo-Saxon – respectively. Each book mentioned in this review investigates the correlations between the animate and the inanimate and between the animate and the animate. The titles of the books are unexpected. Now that the intrigue is noted, let us unravel it together with the authors of those books.

• Zakharova

• Социальные (общественные) науки