| Description |
1 online resource (x, 210 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-199) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Athens and its legal system -- Relevance in the popular courts -- The homicide courts -- Legal insecurity in Athens -- Maritime cases -- Conclusions. |
| Summary |
Adriaan 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. Lanni argues that the Athenians consciously employed different approaches to legal decision-making in different types of courts. The varied approaches to legal process stems from a deep tension in Athenian practice and thinking, between the demand for flexibility of legal interpretation consistent with the exercise of democratic power by ordinary Athenian jurors; and the demand for consistency and predictability in legal interpretation expected by litigants and necessary to permit citizens to conform their conduct to the law. Lanni presents classical Athens as a case study of a successful legal system that, by modern standards, had an extraordinarily individualized and discretionary approach to justice. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Justice, Administration of (Greek law)
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Justice, Administration of (Greek law) |
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Courts -- Greece -- Athens -- History.
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Courts. |
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Greece -- Athens. |
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History. |
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Judicial process -- Greece -- Athens -- History.
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Judicial process. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lanni, Adriaan, 1972- Law and justice in the courts of classical Athens. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006 0521857597 (DLC) 2005032402 (OCoLC)62282204 |
| ISBN |
0511169205 (electronic book) |
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9780511169205 (electronic book) |
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9780511497865 (ebook) |
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0511497865 (ebook) |
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9780521857598 (hardback) |
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0521857597 (hardback) |
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1280436948 |
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9781280436949 |
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9780521733014 (paperback) |
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