Cicero's law : rethinking Roman law of the late Republic /

"In his 1995 book 'The spirit of Roman law, ' Alan Watson included a chapter ... titled 'Cicero the outsider.' Watson's argument, following the then dominant Romanist view, was that Cicero's outlook was significantly different from that of the Roman jurists. While...

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Other Authors: Plessis, Paul J. du (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. On law
  • A Barzunesque view of Cicero : from giant to dwarf and back / Philip Thomas
  • Reading a dead man's mind : Hellenistic philosophy, rhetoric and Roman law / Olga Tellegen-Couperus and Jan Willem Tellegen
  • Law's nature : philosophy as a legal argument in Cicero's writings / Benedikt Forschner
  • Part II. On lawyers
  • Cicero and the small world of Roman jurists / Yasmina Benferhat
  • "Jurists in the shadows" : the everyday business of the jurists of Cicero's time / Christine Lehne-Gstreinthaler
  • Cicero's reception in the juristic tradition of the Early Empire / Matthijs Wibier
  • Servius, Cicero and the Res publica of Justinian / Jill Harries
  • Part III. On legal practice
  • Cicero and the Italians : expansion of empire, creation of law / Saskia T. Roselaar
  • Jurors, jurists and advocates : law in the Rhetorica ad Herennium and De inventione / Jennifer Hilder
  • Multiple charges, unitary punishment and rhetorical strategy in the Quaestiones of the Late Roman Republic / Michael C. Alexander
  • Early-career prosecutors : forensic activity and senatorial careers in the Late Republic / Catherine Steel.