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Ancient Greek Lawsby Ilias Arnaoutoglou
Routledge 1998; US$ 37.95Ilias Arnaoutoglou explores the significance of legislation in ancient Greece, the differences and similarities between ancient Greek legislation and legislators and their modern counterparts. more...
Trials from Classical Athensby Christopher Carey
Routledge 1997; US$ 46.95This comprehensive book will be a fundamental resource for students of Ancient Greek history and anyone interested in the law, social history and oratory of the Ancient Greek world. more...
Early Greek Lawby Michael Gagarin
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 1by R. Westbrook
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 Athensby Edward M. Harris
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 93.00This 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...
Law and Justice in the Courts of Classical Athensby Adriaan Lanni
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 22.00Adriaan 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...
Critical Studies in Ancient Law, Comparative Law and Legal Historyby John Cairns; Olivia Robinson
Hart 2001; US$ 196.80A 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...
Writing Greek Lawby Michael Gagarin
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 44.00A comparative study of legal writing revealing the uniqueness of Greek law. more...
Theory and Method in Biblical and Cuneiform Lawby Bernard M. Levinson
Continuum International Publishing 1994; US$ 130.00The essays in this volume focus on two crucial topics that have been given short shrift in the contemporary debate on the composition and formation of the Pentateuch: (1) biblical law, and the development of Israelite legal institutions; (2) the significance of ancient Near Eastern law for developing a proper model for the composition and editorial history of the Pentateuch. To correct the imbalance, the focus of this volume is on whether the biblical and cuneiform legal corpora underwent a process of literary revision and interpolation that reflects legal, social, and theological development. If so, what is the nature of this development and the evidence for it? If not, how are the textual phenomena otherwise to be explained? The contributors... more...
Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantineby Alejandro F. Botta
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 130.00This is a study of the interrelationships between the formulary traditions of the legal documents of the Jewish colony of Elephantine and the legal formulary traditions of their Egyptian counterparts. . The legal documents of Elephantine have been approached in three different ways thus far: first, comparing them to the later Aramaic legal tradition; second, as part of a self-contained system, and more recently from the point of view of the Assyriological legal tradition. However, there is still a fourth possible approach, which has long been neglected by scholars in this field, and that is to study the Elephantine legal documents from an Egyptological perspective. In seeking the Egyptian parallels and antecedents to the Aramaic formulary,... more...









