Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition (Empire and After)
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (890 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812243544 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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As an attempt to break free of the conventional parameters of discourse on law in antiquity, the book has much to recommend it."—American Historical Review. "A set of stimulating thought-pieces on five distinct but connected preoccupations concerning ancient civil and international law, legal culture, and later readings of the Roman legal tradition
"Law as a Tool of Empire" according to A. A. Nofi. A summary of the review on StrategyPage.Com:'Observing that the Romans perceived civil law as systematizing individual relationships, Prof. Ando (Chicago) notes that it was also a tool of empire. He then examines how Roman civil law evolved to handle a “pluralistic” empire, which, from its beginnings in the third century BC included not just Roman citizens but persons with partial citizenship, such as freedmen or those wit
. Clifford Ando is Professor of Classics, History, and Law at the University of Chicago and Research Fellow in the Department of Classics and World Languages at the University of South Africa He is author of Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire and The Matter of the Gods
The Romans depicted the civil law as a body of rules crafted through communal deliberation for the purpose of self-government. He focuses primarily on the tools—most prominently analogy and fiction—used to extend the system and enable it to regulate the lives of persons far from the minds of the original legislators, and he traces the central place that philosophy of language came to occupy in Roman legal thought.In the second part of the book Ando examines the relationship between civil, public, and international law. When political turmoil at Rome upended the institutions of political and legislative authority and effectively ended Roman democracy, the concepts and language that the civil law supplied to the project of Republican empire saw their meanings transformed. Despite the prominence accorded public and interna