The latest development concerning the metaphorical use of the fairy tale is the legal
perspective. The law had and has recourse to fairy tales in order to speak of the nomos and its
subversion of the politically correct and of the various means that have been used to enforce
the law. Fairy tales are a fundamental tool to examine legal procedures and structures in their
many failings and errors. Therefore we have privileged the term fables of the law just to
stress the ethical perspective: they are moral parables that often speak of justice miscarried
and justice sought. Law and jurists are creators of fables on the view that law is born out of
the facts (ex facto ius oritur) so that there is a need for narrative coherence both on the
level of the case and the level of legislation (or turned the other way around: what does it
mean if no such coherence is found?). This is especially of interest given the influx of all
kinds of new technologies that are fabulous in themselves and hard to incorporate in
traditional doctrinal schemes and thus in the construction of a new reality.
