Law and justice in the courts of classical Athens / Adriaan Lanni.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (x, 210 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 0511169205
- 9780511169205
- 9780511497865
- 0511497865
- 9780521857598
- 0521857597
- 1280436948
- 9781280436949
- 0521733014
- 9780521733014
- Justice, Administration of (Greek law)
- Courts -- Greece -- Athens -- History
- Judicial process -- Greece -- Athens -- History
- Justice -- Administration (Droit grec)
- Tribunaux -- Grèce -- Athènes -- Histoire
- Processus judiciaire -- Grèce -- Athènes -- Histoire
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch
- LAW -- Legal Services
- LAW -- Civil Procedure
- Courts
- Judicial process
- Justice, Administration of (Greek law)
- Greece -- Athens
- 347.495/12 22
- KL4345 .L36 2006eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-199) and index.
Introduction -- Athens and its legal system -- Relevance in the popular courts -- The homicide courts -- Legal insecurity in Athens -- Maritime cases -- Conclusions.
Print version record.
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.
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