Cicero's Law: Rethinking Roman Law of the Late Republic - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474432530 ISBN 13: 9781474432535

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2018

Synopsis

This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in the narrative of Roman law in the late Republic: a role that has been minimised or overlooked in previous scholarship. This reflects current research that opens a larger and more complex debate about the nature of law and of the legal profession in the last century of the Roman Republic.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul J. du Plessis is Senior Lecturer in Civil Law and Legal History at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses predominantly on the multifaceted and complex set of relationships between law and society in a historical context. He is the co-editor, with John W Cairns, of The Making of the Ius Commune: From Casus to Regula (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (Edinburgh University Press, 2007) and Reassessing Legal Humanism and Its Claims: Petere Fontes? (Edinburgh University Press 2015). He is the editor of the critically acclaimed New Frontiers: Law and Society in the Roman World (Edinburgh University Press 2013).

Review:

'A thoroughly enjoyable and thought-provoking book. It is always a pleasure to remake Cicero's acquaintance, and this book does not disappoint.' - Craig Anderson, Robert Gordon University, Edinburgh Law Review. 'The essays are very much on the mark set by the editor, and the quality is high. The book is for scholars, but advanced learning methodology or studying the history of Roman law scholarship will find the book useful too.' Ernest Metzger, University of Glasgow, Roman Legal Tradition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1474432530
• ISBN 13: 9781474432535
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Du Plessis Paul J.