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Law and Justice in the Courts of Classical Athens
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 23.00Adriaan Lanni draws on contemporary legal thinking to present a new model of the legal system of classical Athens. She analyzes the Athenians' preference in most cases for ad hoc, discretionary decision-making, as opposed to what moderns would call the rule of law. more...
Lawmaking and Adjudication in Archaic Greece
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 290.00"Lawmaking and Adjudication in Archaic Greece" re-evaluates central aspects of the genesis and application of laws in the communities of archaic Greece, including the structure and function of legislative bodies, the composition of the courts, the administration of justice and the use and abuse of legal norms and procedures by litigants in... more...
Critical Studies in Ancient Law, Comparative Law and Legal History
Hart Publishing Limited 2001; US$ 153.00A collection of essays dedicated to one of the greatest contemporary Romanists, legal historians and comparative lawyers - Professor Alan Watson. Within this volume, an international group of authors address some of the most lively contemporary problems in their respective fields. more...
Standing Trial
I.B.Tauris 2004; US$ 107.00Standing Trial' focuses on the relationship between the law and the concept of the person in modern Arab societies. It directly addresses the questions of continuities, transformations and ruptures of such notions. Law performs a central function in revealing social and historical dynamics and in being itself a tool of its implementation. The introduction... more...
Hammurabi's Laws
Continuum International Publishing 2004; US$ 150.00Richardson supplies a new translation and transcription (which incorporates the most important manuscript variants) of the most famous of all ancient Mesopotamian texts. He also provides a complete lexical analysis of every word that is used in it. The edition covers the prologue and epilogue as well as the laws themselves. Students of the Bible, ancient... more...
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 35.00This Companion volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of Greek law. more...
Trials from Classical Athens
Taylor and Francis 1997; US$ 46.95Trials from Classical Athens presents a selection of key forensic speeches with new translations and lucid explanatory notes, detailing the strengths and weaknesses of the arguments and a discussion of the legal issues raised. Carey offers a diverse repertory of legal case studies which deal with different aspects of Athenian law. The volume provides... more...
Early Greek Law
University of California Press 1989; US$ 12.95Drawing on the evidence of anthropology as well as ancient literature and inscriptions, Gagarin examines the emergence of law in Greece from the 8th through the 6th centuries B.C., that is, from the oral culture of Homer and Hesiod to the written enactment of codes of law in most major cities. more...
A history of ancient Near Eastern law. Volume 1
BRILL 2003; US$ 438.00The history of law can only begin after the written record of it commences; in the Middle East, that is a few centuries after the advent of writing itself in the fourth millennium BCE. That law is the oldest recorded, and is the foundation of the two great modern Western systems, the Common Law and the Civil Law. In sections covering the next three more...
Democracy and the Rule of Law in Classical Athens
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 97.00This brings together essays on Athenian law by Edward Harris, who challenges much of the recent scholarship on this topic. Presenting a balanced analysis of the legal system in ancient Athens, Harris stresses the importance of substantive issues and their contribution to our understanding of different types of legal procedures. more...









