Author : Caroline Humfress
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,23 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Law, Ancient
ISBN : 9781009452250
"The first volume of its kind in the field of comparative ancient legal history. Written in an accessible and clear-cut style by a collaborative team of world-renowned scholars, it provides general and specialist audiences with a fresh, original, framework for exploring key themes and concepts in ancient law and history"--
Author : Caroline Humfress
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 48,49 MB
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1009566148
The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law is the first of its kind in the field of comparative ancient legal history. Written collaboratively by a dedicated team of international experts, each chapter offers a new framing and understanding of key legal concepts, practices and historical contexts across five major legal traditions of the ancient world. Stretching chronologically across more than three and a half millennia, from the earliest, very fragmentary, proto-cuneiform tablets (3200–3000 BCE) to the Tang Code of 652 CE, the volume challenges earlier comparative histories of ancient law / societies, at the same time as opening up new areas for future scholarship across a wealth of surviving ancient Near Eastern, Indian, Chinese, Greek and Roman primary source evidence. Topics covered include 'law as text', legal science, inter-polity relations, law and the state, law and religion, legal procedure, personal status and the family, crime, property and contract.
Author : Mauro Bussani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 29,22 MB
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521895707
The book delves into the 'deeper structures' of the world's legal systems, where law meets culture, politics and socio-economic factors.
Author : Alan Watson
Publisher : Hart Publishing
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 14,2 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 1841131571
This book focused on texts and contexts is dedicated to a great contemporary Romanist, legal historian and comparative lawyer: Professor Watson.
Author : Anthony Musson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 1139505238
Drawing together leading legal historians from a range of jurisdictions and cultures, this collection of essays addresses the fundamental methodological underpinning of legal history research. Via a broad chronological span and a wide range of topics, the contributors explore the approaches, methods and sources that together form the basis of their research and shed light on the complexities of researching into the history of the law. By exploring the challenges posed by visual, unwritten and quasi-legal sources, the difficulties posed by traditional archival material and the novelty of exploring the development of legal culture and comparative perspectives, the book reveals the richness and dynamism of legal history research.
Author : Larry May
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108484107
"Nearly four thousand years ago, kings in various ancient societies, especially in Mesopotamia (contemporary Iraq), faced a crisis of major proportions. Large portions of the population were horribly in debt, many being forced to sell themselves or their children into slavery to pay off their debts. The laws and customs seemed to support the commercial practices that allowed lenders to charge 20%-30% interest, and the law protected the lenders and gave no recourse for the indebted. Strict justice called for the creditors to receive what they were due. But another legal concept, the emerging idea of equity, seemed to call for a different result - the use of law as a vehicle to free people from economic oppression. Debt relief edicts were instituted - "clean-slate laws" as they were known - and are of obvious relevance today as well where crushing debt is a major issue underlying social inequality"--
Author : James Gordley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 16,43 MB
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108835848
Original sources illustrate and compare the principal doctrines of private law in the United States, England, France, Germany and China.
Author : Peter Stein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,64 MB
Release : 1999-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521643795
This is a short and succinct summary of the unique position of Roman law in European culture by one of the world's leading legal historians. Peter Stein's masterly study assesses the impact of Roman law in the ancient world, and its continued unifying influence throughout medieval and modern Europe. Roman Law in European History is unparalleled in lucidity and authority, and should prove of enormous utility for teachers and students (at all levels) of legal history, comparative law and European Studies. Award-winning on its appearance in German translation, this English rendition of a magisterial work of interpretive synthesis is an invaluable contribution to the understanding of perhaps the most important European legal tradition of all.
Author : David J. Bederman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 38,55 MB
Release : 2001-03-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 1139430270
This study of the origins of international law combines techniques of intellectual history and historiography to investigate the earliest developments of the law of nations. The book examines the sources, processes and doctrines of international legal obligation in antiquity to re-evaluate the critical attributes of international law. David J. Bederman focuses on three essential areas in which law influenced ancient state relations - diplomacy, treaty-making and warfare - in a detailed analysis of international relations in the Near East (2800–700 BCE), the Greek city-states (500–338 BCE) and Rome (358–168 BCE). Containing topical literature and archaeological evidence, this 2001 study does not merely catalogue instances of recognition by ancient states of these seminal features of international law: it accounts for recurrent patterns of thinking and practice. This comprehensive analysis of international law and state relations in ancient times provides a fascinating study for lawyers and academics, ancient historians and classicists alike.
Author : Antonio Padoa-Schioppa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1107180694
The first English translation of a comprehensive legal history of Europe from the early middle ages to the twentieth century, encompassing both the common aspects and the original developments of different countries. As well as legal scholars and professionals, it will appeal to those interested in the general history of European civilisation.
