基本信息出版社：Cambridge University Press
页码：224 页
出版日期：2006年02月
ISBN：0521857597
International Standard Book Number：0521857597
条形码：9780521857598
EAN：9780521857598
装帧：精装
正文语种：英语

内容简介 In The Law Courts of Classical Athens, 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.
作者简介 Adriaan Lanni is assistant professor of law at Harvard Law School. She has contributed to the Yale Law Journal, the Law and History Review, The Cambridge Companion to Greek Law, and the Oxford Encyclopedia of Legal History.
目录
1. Introduction; 2. Athens and its legal system; 3. Relevance in the popular courts; 4. The homicide courts; 5. Legal insecurity in Athens; 6. Maritime cases; 7. Conclusions.
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