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The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law

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David Ibbetson, Michael Gagarin, Ernest Caldwell, Timothy Lubin, Geoffrey MacCormack, Joseph Manning, Martha T. Roth, Dario Mantovani, Sophie Demare-Lafont, Caroline Humfress, Patrick Olivelle, Robin Osborne, William Tooman, Bruce Wells, Katelijn Vandorpe, Mark McClish, Nicolas Wiater, Ari Bryen, Bruce Wells, Noah Bickart, Donald Davis, Edward Harris
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  • Date Published: May 2024
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  • isbn: 9781009566155

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  • 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.

    • Proposes a new understanding of the comparative history of ancient legal traditions
    • Provides expert background analysis and orientation that helps to contextualize the technical and specialist aspects of legal thought and practice across Near Eastern, Indian, Chinese, Greek and Roman ancient law traditions
    • Every chapter is written by a world-leading expert, working with a dedicated specialist team of scholars drawn from across five major ancient legal traditions
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    • Date Published: May 2024
    • format: Adobe eBook Reader
    • isbn: 9781009566155
    • availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
  • Table of Contents

    1. Orientation David Ibbetson
    2. Law as text Michael Gagarin, Ernest Caldwell, David Ibbetson, Timothy Lubin, Geoffrey MacCormack, Joseph Manning and Martha T. Roth
    3. Legal science Dario Mantovani, Ernest Caldwell, Sophie Demare-Lafont, Caroline Humfress, David Ibbetson, Geoffrey MacCormack, Patrick Olivelle, Robin Osborne, William Tooman, and Bruce Wells
    4. War, peace and interstate relations Katelijn Vandorpe, Sophie Démare-Lafont, Geoffrey MacCormack, Mark McClish, Patrick Olivelle and Nicolas Wiater
    5. Law and the state Mark McClish, Ari Bryen, Sophie Demare-Lafont, Geoffrey MacCormack and Robin Osborne
    6. Law and religion Bruce Wells, Noah Bickart, Donald Davis, Edward Harris, Caroline Humfress, Geoffrey MacCormack, Robin Osborne and Katelijn Vandorpe
    7. Legal procedure Patrick Olivelle, Michael Gagarin, Caroline Humfress, Geoffrey MacCormack, Joseph Manning and Bruce Wells
    8. Status and family Timothy Lubin, Ari Bryen, Sophie Démare-Lafont, Michael Gagarin, Caroline Humfress, Geoffrey MacCormack and Joseph Manning
    9. Crime, redress, and social control Ari Z. Bryen, Timothy Lubin, Geoffrey MacCormack and Robin Osborne
    10. Property Joseph G. Manning, Edward Harris, David Ibbetson, Timothy Lubin and Geoffrey MacCormack
    11. Commerce and contracts David Ibbetson, Ernest Caldwell, Edward Harris, Geoffrey MacCormack, Joe Manning and Patrick Olivelle
    12. Conclusion Caroline Humfress.

  • Editors

    Caroline Humfress, University of St Andrews, Scotland
    CAROLINE HUMFRESS is Professor of History and Co-Director of the Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research at the University of St Andrews, and an L. Bates Lea Global Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. She is a Philip Leverhulme Prize winner and recipient of Il Premio della Corte Costituzionale della Reppublica Italiana (awarded by the Gérard Boulvert Society for the Study of European Civilization). She has published widely on ancient and early medieval law, rhetoric and forensic practice, and their intersections with modern scholarship.

    David Ibbetson, University of Cambridge
    DAVID IBBETSON is Regius Professor Emeritus of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, where he was President from 2013 to 2020. He has published widely on the ways in which Roman law influenced (and continues to influence) English law, as well as the way in which Roman law related to other early legal systems.

    Patrick Olivelle, University of Texas, Austin
    Patrick Olivelle has been Chair of both the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, and of the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas. He has edited and translated seven early treatises on Indian law, including the Laws of Manu and the legal treatise of Yājñāvalkya. As the author of over thirty books, his works have won awards from the Association for Asian Studies and the American Academy of Religion.

    Contributors

    David Ibbetson, Michael Gagarin, Ernest Caldwell, Timothy Lubin, Geoffrey MacCormack, Joseph Manning, Martha T. Roth, Dario Mantovani, Sophie Demare-Lafont, Caroline Humfress, Patrick Olivelle, Robin Osborne, William Tooman, Bruce Wells, Katelijn Vandorpe, Mark McClish, Nicolas Wiater, Ari Bryen, Bruce Wells, Noah Bickart, Donald Davis, Edward Harris

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